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C/C++ isn't going anywhere. For a long time. Sh**ty developers and rush to market practices are source of these issues. You can blame the banking industry for that.

That defeats the whole purpose of using Thunderbolt. The idea here is to saturate the 40Gbps interface with a fast, high capacity ZFS array using one cable.

I thought about that also. But I figured for us mere mortals this idea would be cleaner, and more simple. Once networking is involved I have to worry about 10gb hubs, switches, cabling, power and all. I just want this to be idiot proof with a simple script to setup in the end.

Precisely. Except I'm looking to assemble a barebones system with maybe 4 drives and just a thunderbolt HBA. If i can find a motherboard with built in thunderbolt ports; that'd be even better.

No problem at all mate. I recall Scott Long previously working on Thunderbolt code some time ago, but that's as far as my knowledge goes. I think his work was mainly done on laptops too. I'm not sure where to start for accessing the chipset itself on the HBA. Appreciate it. That'll give me...

I'm fully aware of what a DAS is. This will basically be a whitebox raid-array, connected via thunderbolt. Think QNAP, Synology, etc. I appreciate your input, but it doesn't answer my question. I'm open to real suggestions. thanks.

Some reading for you.

Hello Humans, I'd like to experiment with writing device drivers for various thunderbolt PCIe cards. The end goal is to use FreeBSD as a ZFS backed Thunderbolt DAS for my macs. I'd figured Thunderbolt and ZFS would be a great match for post production work without having to fill up drive space...

after the ship sinks it becomes... rusty. I'll see myself out.

I've been meaning to find this post. I think this would be a fun project on its own. What would you suggest? Any features to add and/or remove? Ideally, a from scratch, portable, BSD licensed implementation would be nice. I'd be able to write stuff for my Mac and FreeBSD; since...

That idiotic touch bar and terrible butterfly-switch keyboards on previous gen MacBook Pro's. Apple configurator was required, on a separate mac, to reinstall bridgeOS for that monstrosity. Stupid. It was a really bad era for MacBooks.

You can't go wrong with Lenovo Thinkpads. A maxed out T480 should do you well for the next several years. If you have the cash, an X1 Extreme from the same year is good too. Good luck configuring firmware on that thing though.. The Lenovo Legion laptops are pretty slick looking for gaming...

Here's the thing. It already exists; i'm using it on macOS. It's called Quartz. :) (which greatly inspired Wayland) I'm just waiting for that brave soul to write an open source implementation for the BSDs. To add; Wayland should've been API based, instead of protocol based. Canonical had the...

This is empirically false.