Re: Disappointment for NetBSD users

[Rena <hyperhacker@...>]

On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 04:16, sergei karhof <karhof21@gmail.com> wrote:
> I regret having to share with you this piece of news: the
> Lua-in-Kernel project on NetBSD is no longer maintained. I don't know
> if it has been abandoned for good or may be resumed at a later date.
> What is confirmed is that Marc, the maintainer, has abandoned the
> project. As far as I know, nobody else has stepped in. What a pity.
> For those who were not familiar with the idea, the Lua-in-Kernel
> project (also called Lunatik) aimed at rendering the NetBSD kernel
> scriptable with Lua, so that the kernel functioning could be easily
> tweaked on-the-fly with a simple script.
> Any volunteers willing to step in?
>

I don't know enough about BSD or kernels to do such a thing, but I did
think it was a really interesting project. In theory you could have a
whole OS written in Lua, save for some C code to provide interfaces to
the hardware...

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