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"Novice developers should not be writing drivers in any language."

Well, it might not be such a bad thing to write your stuff in Lua and get the lights blinking as a way to work your way up to C and mainline device driver development. If the device drivers interest the novice programmer, let's encourage that. Its not like there aren't a ton of safeguards between the novice and getting their driver in the mainline.




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