Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Magazine article comparing CPU usage of Puppet vs. Cfengine

Nigel Kersten
2010-02-24T10:19:57Z

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 1:59 AM, Michael Gliwinski
<Michael.Gliwinski@henderson-group.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 Feb 2010 16:22:44 Lindsay Holmwood wrote:
>> Performance, expressiveness, stability. Pick two.
>>
>
> You make it sound like it''s impossible to write a well performing,
expressive
> and stable system in C/C++, etc.  Surely you can''t think that?

I don''t think that.

What I *do* think is that something like Puppet that needs to abstract
out a bunch of stuff across various platforms is only really going to
work as an open source project with a healthy and active community.

You''re much more likely to get such a community form around a high
level language than a lower level one.

I wouldn''t have contributed as much to Puppet as I''ve done if
it was
written in C/C++.


>
> I once had an idea of using puppet to also manage configuration on some
> embedded systems (routers, NAS, heck even tablets like maemo-based), that
went
> quickly out the door once I realised how well performing ruby is.  Still I
> think it would be a valid use case.
>
> Regards,
>
> Michael
>
>
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