Florian Fainelli <f.faine...@gmail.com> writes:
> In general there appears to be no direction from kernel maintainers > about what scripting language is acceptable for writing selftests. My > concern over time is that if we all let our preferences pick a scripting > language, we could make it harder for people to actually run these tests > when running non mainstream systems and we could start requiring more > and more interpreters or runtime environments over time. You make it sound as if we pushed like Ruby or SBCL or S-Lang, or some craziness like that. Python is a conservative choice in the Linux kernel. Not as conservative as Bash or C, but still conservative, Python is used quite a bit, even for selftests (TDC!).
