busybox VS ngs

Compare busybox vs ngs and see what are their differences.

busybox

The Swiss Army Knife of Embedded Linux - private tree (by brgl)
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busybox ngs
6 94
55 1,360
- 4.0%
0.0 4.0
about 5 years ago 6 days ago
C C
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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busybox

Posts with mentions or reviews of busybox. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-04-25.
  • Sorry if this is too political.
    1 project | /r/linuxmasterrace | 22 Dec 2022
    Well.
  • Guide: Hush Shell-Scripting Language
    23 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Apr 2022
  • There's a tool to produce a diff-like output from c code?
    1 project | /r/C_Programming | 1 Mar 2022
    Maybe you have better luck with the Busybox diff: https://github.com/brgl/busybox/blob/master/editors/diff.c
  • How could /dev/mem Linux directory be used in order to control the peripherals (MM/IO) ?
    2 projects | /r/embedded | 16 Jan 2022
    You can use busybox devmem to debug. The source code gives you an idea of how it works to write your own code.
  • Programming Puzzles
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Sep 2021
    You can fairly easily spot things like recursive search tree implementations in the wild.

    Also, compilers and interpreters often recursion, and that goes to as many levels as the program requires.

    Have you heard of a "recursive descent parser"? GNU C++ uses one (a huge source file written in C++, well over a megabyte long). This will recurse as deeply as the program's nesting goes; C++ programs often go to more than three levels of nesting. (There are some non-recursive hacks mixed in there, like some operator precedence parsing involving an explicit stack: Shunting-Yard or similar?)

    https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/master/gcc/cp/parser....

    Let's switch over to embedded. Have you heard of BusyBox? BusyBox provides scaled down system utilities for embedded systems. It is very widely used.

    BusyBox's "libb" internal library contains a function called "recursive_action" for walking file system trees. This is actually recursive, and frequently goes more than three levels deep in actual use:

    https://github.com/brgl/busybox/blob/master/libbb/recursive_...

    This is used by BusyBox programs like mdev (udev replacement) lsusb, lspci, chmod, ...

    Also, HN isn't a good place to exhibit Lisp condescension/ignorance.

  • Go & secondary groups: a kaniko adventure!
    3 projects | dev.to | 25 Feb 2021
    This is almost the same implementation you see in busybox's id command source

ngs

Posts with mentions or reviews of ngs. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-12.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing busybox and ngs you can also consider the following projects:

barebox - The barebox bootloader - Mirror of ssh://[email protected]/barebox

nushell - A new type of shell

gcc

oil - Oils is our upgrade path from bash to a better language and runtime. It's also for Python and JavaScript users who avoid shell!

kaniko - Build Container Images In Kubernetes

fx - Terminal JSON viewer & processor

stshell

ohmyzsh - 🙃 A delightful community-driven (with 2,300+ contributors) framework for managing your zsh configuration. Includes 300+ optional plugins (rails, git, macOS, hub, docker, homebrew, node, php, python, etc), 140+ themes to spice up your morning, and an auto-update tool so that makes it easy to keep up with the latest updates from the community.

hush - Hush is a unix shell based on the Lua programming language

ShellCheck - ShellCheck, a static analysis tool for shell scripts

hush - hush (a Bourne-style shell) for the GNO multitasking environment on the Apple IIgs

bashly - Bash command line framework and CLI generator