- who wants to deal with something low level like the boot loader,
should be also able to learn a simple programming language.
- Now the whole bootloader had become riddled with problems that hinders
booting and installation.
- Unfortunately someone was willing to do the destructive work.
The only possitive thing: only the bootloader was spoiled. One could
spoil the whole system with this posture and argumentation.
Rodrigo
On Wed, 3 Jun 2020, Mark Linimon wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 03, 2020 at 05:00:13AM +0000, Roderick wrote:
>> I would real want hear, why was the boat loader spoiled with Lua?
>> Because lua is so cool?
>
> You are coming in several years late to a conversation.
>
> - Having a scripting language makes working with the boot loader
> code easier.
>
> - The number of people who can code in lua is far higher than the
> number who can code in Forth.
>
> - The Forth code had become riddled with problems.
>
> - Someone was willing to do the work.
>
> mcl
>