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oils
Oils is our upgrade path from bash to a better language and runtime. It's also for Python and JavaScript users who avoid shell!
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murex
A smarter shell and scripting environment with advanced features designed for usability, safety and productivity (eg smarter DevOps tooling)
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hush
hush (a Bourne-style shell) for the GNO multitasking environment on the Apple IIgs (by sheumann)
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The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives.
Hence, a higher number means a better busybox alternative or higher similarity.
busybox discussion
busybox reviews and mentions
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-04-25.
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BusyBox: Life Without Systemd
Which minimal init process? The one that comes builtin in busybox? https://github.com/brgl/busybox/blob/master/init/init.c
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Sorry if this is too political.
Well.
- Guide: Hush Shell-Scripting Language
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There's a tool to produce a diff-like output from c code?
Maybe you have better luck with the Busybox diff: https://github.com/brgl/busybox/blob/master/editors/diff.c
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How could /dev/mem Linux directory be used in order to control the peripherals (MM/IO) ?
You can use busybox devmem to debug. The source code gives you an idea of how it works to write your own code.
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Programming Puzzles
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.
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Go & secondary groups: a kaniko adventure!
This is almost the same implementation you see in busybox's id command source
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brgl/busybox is an open source project licensed under GNU General Public License v3.0 or later which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of busybox is C.
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