A good scripting language for busybox?

[Kang-Che Sung]

On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 11:20 PM, Pavel Aronsky <pavel.aronsky at 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?
>

BusyBox isn't a project that would make a "scripting language" or a
"programming environment" for you. BusyBox is a set of common Unix utilities
fused in one binary that can be used on small or embedded OS distributions.