Re: [dev] Attempt at a suckless syslog

2014-07-18 Thread Zack Breckenridge
Weldon, I think this is pretty interesting, though I'd have to compare some other implementations of syslogd to actually be able to tell you what functionality is missing that I "can't live without". The code is nice and short though. > ... It currently uses > daemon(3) to detach, but I'm open to

Re: [dev] What is bad with Python

2014-03-04 Thread Zack Breckenridge
On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 12:56 PM, Szabolcs Nagy wrote: > * Silvan Jegen [2014-03-04 14:27:26 +0100]: > the heavy python runtime has unspecified interactions ... > go is not very good for either of these: it cannot directly > interact with anything written in c (it has a hack (cgo) ... I would s

Re: [dev] What is bad with Python

2014-03-04 Thread Zack Breckenridge
> I'm afraid to ask: what do you think about the Rust language? Personally, I mostly really like Go. But I would say one of my biggest problems with Go is (as far as I know) forced Garbage Collection. Depending on your point of view, that's either a strength or weakness of the language. From what

Re: [dev] What is bad with Python

2014-03-03 Thread Zack Breckenridge
All language issues aside, I think one of the things (that others have touched on here but I'd like to reiterate) that makes something suckless is fewer dependencies and less version management. Due to Python's "batteries included" philosophy and the large amount of 3rd party libraries often used,