rustybox, an experimental fork written entirely in Rust

Mattias Schlenker ms at mattiasschlenker.de
Fri Nov 15 06:10:31 UTC 2019


Am 14.11.19 um 23:33 schrieb Markus Gothe:

> How do you think that fatso library aptly named librust would fit into 
> any modest embedded system? Well it doesn't and you never thought of 
> that in the first place which makes the rest of your assumptions more 
> damaging than any good.
> [...]
> Busybox is INTENDED for embedded systems (and without any explanation 
> bounds-checking should be optional etcetera). Feel free to fork it and 
> create a rust variant; but it is all out of the scope of the current 
> purpose.

Busybox' popularity is increasing among container folks where it is a 
building block allowing for small storage footprints and reduced 
complexity. A rustybox port could take off among the Rust community 
because it would allow containerizing Rust apps by building a complete 
container with a single toolchain (Rustybox, Rust app, some shell scripts).

I think, the busybox should embrace this as a chance to get attention 
from developers beyond embedded.

Yours,
Mattias

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