LUA ERROR: memory allocation error: block too big

[Patrick M. Hausen]

Hi all,

to add to the argument made by Kyle:

> Am 03.06.2020 um 14:56 schrieb Kyle Evans <kevans at freebsd.org>:
> As an aside, I'd appreciate it if other folks in this thread could
> simply stop dumping all over the many many many hours of work that
> were put into getting lua into shape to replace the high-quality forth
> that was already in place. The reality is that lua won a popularity
> contest long ago [outside of a FreeBSD context][ and lowers the barrier
> to being able to hack on our loader menus, which should be viewed as a
> great thing.

I was equally annoyed at first because I happen to know a good deal of Forth
(and use HP calculators ;-) and my reasoning was like „Lua is just as exotic as Forth
so people need to learn the basics of a new language, anyway - why make *me*
relearn everything?“

But in private conversation at one EuroBSDCon I learned that the „bus factor“
of the old bootloader (i.e. how many people have to be overrun by a bus to
make that part of the project unmaintainable because there is zero knowledge
left) was probably 2.

Which is a perfectly good reason to replace a piece of software with a new one
that hopefully more people understand. As for the choice of language I am actually
pretty agnostic and willing to learn whatever is needed to get a particular task done.

Just my 2ct.
Patrick
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