From busybox  Fri Mar 17 15:23:59 2017
From: Laszlo Papp <lpapp () kde ! org>
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 15:23:59 +0000
To: busybox
Subject: Re: A good scripting language for busybox?
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Why do you need a scripting language in the busybox project?

Cannot you just generate the platform with things like a small subset of
python using Yocto or something similar?

On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 3:20 PM, Pavel Aronsky <pavel.aronsky@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Apologies for maybe a wild or off-topic question.
> After dealing with quite a few products with busybox and its ash shell
> used as the primary scripting language, I'd like to ask you, busybox
> experts: what are alternatives?
>
> This page: https://busybox.net/tinyutils.html  - mentions Lua and
> Micro-perl. I'd rather perfer a small subset of Python, but cold not find
> one after a day of googling (this is surprising. I've been sure such things
> exists).
>
> However my search hit one interesting Javascript engine named Duktape (
> duktape.org).
>
> Javascript looks almost as good as Python for me, it is popular and should
> be familiar to new developers. Lua is less familiar, but much better for
> writing moderately simple app logic than the *dreadful* shell language.
>
> So the question: how feasible would be inclusion of Lua or Javascript into
> BB, as option for systems where one of these languages will be heavy used?
>
> As "plan B": has anyone seen (or thought of) a FFI interface for BB that
> would allow to call shared libraries written in C, from ash?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Pavel A.
>
>
>
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<div dir=3D"ltr">Why do you need a scripting language in the busybox projec=
t?<div><br></div><div>Cannot you just generate the platform with things lik=
e a small subset of python using Yocto or something similar?</div></div><di=
v class=3D"gmail_extra"><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 17, 2017=
 at 3:20 PM, Pavel Aronsky <span dir=3D"ltr">&lt;<a href=3D"mailto:pavel.ar=
onsky@gmail.com" target=3D"_blank">pavel.aronsky@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> w=
rote:<br><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;borde=
r-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir=3D"ltr"><div>Apologies for=
 maybe a wild or off-topic question.</div><div>After dealing with quite a f=
ew products with busybox and its ash shell used as the primary scripting la=
nguage, I&#39;d like to ask you, busybox experts: what are alternatives?</d=
iv><div><br></div><div>This page: <a href=3D"https://busybox.net/tinyutils.=
html" target=3D"_blank">https://busybox.net/tinyutils.<wbr>html</a> =C2=A0-=
 mentions Lua and Micro-perl. I&#39;d rather perfer a small subset of Pytho=
n, but cold not find one after a day of googling (this is surprising. I&#39=
;ve been sure such things exists).</div><div><br></div><div>However my sear=
ch hit one interesting Javascript engine named Duktape (<a href=3D"http://d=
uktape.org" target=3D"_blank">duktape.org</a>).</div><div><br></div><div>Ja=
vascript looks almost as good as Python for me, it is popular and should be=
 familiar to new developers. Lua is less familiar, but much better for writ=
ing moderately simple app logic than the *dreadful* shell language.</div><d=
iv><br></div><div>So the question: how feasible would be inclusion of Lua o=
r Javascript into BB, as option for systems where one of these languages wi=
ll be heavy used?</div><div><br></div><div>As &quot;plan B&quot;: has anyon=
e seen (or thought of) a FFI interface for BB that would allow to call shar=
ed libraries written in C, from ash?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks in adv=
ance,</div><div><br></div><div>Pavel A.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>=
</div>
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