On Monday, November 12, 2012 08:15:48 PM Miloslav Trmač wrote:
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 7:54 PM, Kevin Kofler
<kevin.kofler(a)chello.at> wrote:
> Jan Zelený wrote:
>> Yes, that's the plan. But dnf is still Python. So if we really want to
>> get Python out of minimal install, there is a room for possible
>> alternatives I guess.
>
> Right. We need to stop writing core system components in scripting
> languages!
Well, there are significant advantages to using a higer-level
language than C.[1]
But the problem I see is a lot of libraries are wrapped by swig, which leaks
memory like a sieve. If swig didn't generate such leaky code, Python based
daemons wouldn't be as scary.
-Steve