Strategic Thinking (was: Re: Speculative: Rust for base system components)

[Igor Mozolevsky]

On Sat, 5 Jan 2019 at 15:15, Wojciech Puchar wrote:

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> What is wrong in ALL systems today are shared libraries or languages
> (like python or perl) that depends on millions of files. Getting rid of
> them will make "microservice" idea the right way.
>
> Simply having static executable to be run. Or multiple static executables
> communicating by pipes.

Couldn't agree more: when I did run jails, I would just compile a
static binary and jail that process (of course devd made that a bit of
a pain, but eventually you can figure out what's needed to have a
single statically-linked binary jail without the bloat).

-- 
Igor M.