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Show HN: A udev implementation in Guile Scheme
- eisbaw 2mo ago503. also Why?
- rwmj 2mo agoBecause both the implementation and DSL of udev are terrible, probably.
- voxelghost 2mo ago503 seems to be for all of codeberg.org
- xedrac 2mo agoCodeberg infrastructure needs work...
- farfatched 2mo agoThe README: > Nothing is wrong with udev. In fact udev is great, as should be obvious from its 20+ years of service on nearly every GNU/Linux system out there. The rule format it pioneered has stood the test of time and can almost be considered a "standard". > > However, udev is not easily usable on systems without systemd and Linux. This project, like eudev and others, aims to address that. Unlike eudev however, this is a completely independent implementation instead of a "fork".
- rahen 2mo agoI was initially surprised because this is not a good use case for Scheme. The current C implementation is clean and efficient, and I'd rather use Scheme to replace some messy Python code with its dependency hell. And then I saw this: "As mentioned above, some code has been automatically translated from C to Scheme, using generative AI. This is not creative work, and as such, the authors of Goodev cannot claim copyright for it." Somehow I wish those tokens would had been more usefully spent on porting code where a sound language could actually make a difference.
- nemoniac 2mo agoNot only that, under rule changes in progress it would not be allowed in Guix, which it would appear to be well suited for.