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

Michael Gliwinski
2010-02-24T11:00:41Z

On Wednesday 24 Feb 2010 10:19:57 Nigel Kersten wrote:
> > 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.
>

Agreed.

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

That is perhaps relative, but see below.

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

I see your point, but this is perhaps specific to the domain of configuration
management systems?  I mean just look at some of the largest free software
communities like KDE, which is primarily written in C++ which doesn''t
seem to
be in any way diminishing the number of contributors.


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