"Jonathan S. Shapiro" wrote:
>
> Dan. all:
>
> Possibly I'm just an old fart and Python doesn't click for me, but I didn't
> seriously consider it for this job. Perhaps I should, and I would welcome a
> phone conversation with Dan to talk about this.
>
> One reason is that I wrote the EROS kernel configuration tool in Python, and
> I concluded that while Python did well for that, it would be difficult to
> maintain for anything much larger. The main reason is that Python lacks
> static typing. Also, it seems on cursory examination not to be well-suited
> to manipulating binary file formats.
>
> In fact, I have been inclined to abandon Python for kernel configuration in
> the future. While Python is a fine tool and is doing the job well, the
> porting effort is simplified if we can minimize the number of languages and
> runtimes required to successfully native-build the EROS system. Actually,
> the same argument is one of the reasons for getting out of C++.
One of the trickier parts of installing EROS for me was getting Python installed. Not sure I agree about C++, though. You are bound to have strong toolchain dependencies anyway for building EROS (aren't you??), so adding C++ to that doesn't seem bad to me, especially since it is fairly universally available.
Cheers,
Ben.
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