Comment by arp242

Right, I didn't read all messages in that thread before (why don't these archives just present the entire thread in one page?)

In the end it's just random people posting stuff; you see that on HN as well, but also "it should literally be forbidden to use non-safe languages" on the other extreme end. bytevolcano seems to have just a few posts to the mailing list. Nick Holland is more involved (nick@), but mostly in documentation and that kind of stuff. There are no actual code commits beyond "add fstab example" and that kind of thing.

I happen to know tedu@ (actual OpenBSD developer) does a lot of Go stuff. I don't want to put words in his mouth, but I'd be surprised if he would come close to agreeing with that kind of stuff.

Unfortunately OpenBSD has always attracted its share of "ima very smart for using openbsd unlike poor dumb linux penguins!11" type of people.

In general I don't think OpenBSD people in general would be against safer languages. I mean, they did a lot of work to make a "safer libc" and it includes Perl in base.