rustybox, an experimental fork written entirely in Rust

[Samuel Ainsworth]

Hi Daniel,

Thanks for bringing that to my attention! I tried to give the busybox team a shoutout in the README as well as in the binary “help” page as much as possible. If there are any specific people I should mention, please do let me know! I’d really like to give you guys all the credit you deserve since this project wouldn’t exist without busybox.

I hadn’t thought about the license situation yet. I’m not a lawyer but I’m not sure how the license situation would work since this is kind of a Ship of Theseus situation.

All the best,
Samuel

> On Nov 14, 2019, at 2:37 PM, email at esotericnonsense.com wrote:
> 
> On 14.11.2019 14:00, Samuel Ainsworth wrote:
>> Hello BusyBox overlords,
>> 
>> This week I thought it would be interesting to try porting busybox to Rust with c2rust. I was pleasantly surprised to find out that it actually worked. I thought the results might be interesting to the BusyBox team as well. I have no idea if the core team is interested in Rust at all, but I’d be happy to elaborate if there’s interest. Although I did a complete transpile, a more conservative option would be to keep applets written in C, with appletlib/libbb translated to Rust.
>> 
>> If anyone else is interested in contributing, there’s lots to be done!
>> 
>> Check it out here: https://github.com/samuela/rustybox <https://github.com/samuela/rustybox>.
>> 
>> All the best,
>> Samuel
> 
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> 
> Hi Samuel,
> 
> I'm a big Rust fan and this looks pretty cool, though I have my
> reservations about how useful this would be in embedded situations as
> others have already mentioned.
> 
> I posted an issue on Github regarding the licensing situation, I'm sure
> it was just an oversight but I think it would make sense to clarify
> particularly for downstream users and contributors etc.
> 
> Regards
> 
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