[iamatologist]

Sebastien Marie wanted to make Zig work on OpenBSD. I don’t know why Raadt then respondend by saying that Zig hasn’t proved that it can do what it claims to do. But maybe I don’t understand this mailing list’s culture (or what “import Zig” means in this context other then to port to OpenBSD).

[dvfjsdhgfv]

> I don’t know why Raadt then respondend by saying that Zig hasn’t proved that it can do what it claims to do.

I know why. It's because Zig hasn’t proved that it can do what it claims to do.

[iamatologist]

Does an application need to prove it can do what it claims to do before it can be ported to OpenBSD? Seems like a high bar. :-)

[dvfjsdhgfv]

It's not a high bar, just plain honesty. I remember a while ago someone was promoting a language called v, making many claims of which some turned out completely untrue. This might be a norm in commercial software - some people believe that you can't sell anything if you don't exaggerate - but the open source world in general prefers a more honest approach. Hence many projects always remaining at 0.x release, for example.

[spacemanmatt]

It is a high bar that makes OpenBSD in security-sensitive roles way more appealing than a distribution with a lower bar. That high bar paid for itself repeatedly when I ran OpenBSD in the late 90s and early 2000s.

[tyingq]

That's true, but not for the ports collection. There's all sorts of software there with historically bad track records in security. That's the point...it's just ports of a bunch of popular software.

[iamatologist]

Fair enough.