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Re:An FPGA-friendly 32-bit RISC-V CPU implementation on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @02:42PM (#14806757)
Kinda off-topic. SpinalHDL is the second HDL, that I come across, being implemented in Scala. It seems that every popular programming language has at least one HDL implemented in it these days. Any obvious reasons for this trend?
Re:Escape from systemd on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @12:32PM (#14553857)
There's also GNU Shepherd.
There is a way to do this without the security/bloat/management issues. Take a look at the approach of GNU Guix. Both versions of a package can coexist in the system. Libraries are dynamically-linked and security updates can be applied fast (without building the world), using the "grafting" system.