From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D2312138350 for ; Thu, 23 Apr 2020 20:27:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A0B04E09CB; Thu, 23 Apr 2020 20:27:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mta2.recol.net (mta2.recol.net [64.207.103.7]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4EB31E09B5 for ; Thu, 23 Apr 2020 20:27:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wrkhors.com (99-105-125-193.uvs.stlsmo.sbcglobal.net [99.105.125.193]) by mta2.recol.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C23A2398134; Thu, 23 Apr 2020 16:27:19 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 15:27:16 -0500 From: Steven Lembark To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Cc: lembark@wrkhors.com Subject: Re: [OBORONA-SPAM] Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo dead? Message-ID: <20200423152716.51799a42.lembark@wrkhors.com> In-Reply-To: <20200422161455.GA23147@legohost> References: <20200421165803.GB187193@redacted> <11506562.O9o76ZdvQC@peak> <20200421190145.GF187193@redacted> <20200422161455.GA23147@legohost> Organization: Workhorse Computing X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.17.5 (GTK+ 2.24.32; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-Workhorse: Quite Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 772433d7-c4d7-4f8f-a21a-db53752e3384 X-Archives-Hash: 123efcd155d3a1bfb8c756e47280b9ee > portage must be in C and statically linked. Seems to argue in favor of a statically-linked dynamic language: The runtime compiler can be static with install scripts being a bit more malleable. Main issue I can see with C is that most people today don't know how to manage memory; not enough of us left who really understand how malloc works :-) -- Steven Lembark 5725 Aylesboro Ave Workhorse Computing Pittsburgh PA 15217 lembark@wrkhors.com +1 888 359 3508