lua [ was: Bash shell support? ]

[Rob Landley]

On Saturday 26 August 2006 7:50 pm, Natanael Copa wrote:
> Now if lua will make it to mainstream busybox, then lua sounds very much
> more interesting.
> 
> Is it realistic to expect it to go into busybox 1.3?

I make no promises.  I haven't seen the patch yet (you mentioned it could 
possibly be trimmed down below 50k, that would improve its acceptability to 
me), I haven't learned the language yet, and I haven't heard much feedback 
from anybody else yet.

However, of all the various scripting langauges I've seen, lua is the only one 
I can't immediately rule _out_ as going into BusyBox.  Even Python (my 
scripting language of choice) is just too darn big.  The idea of adding perl 
is laughable.  PHP is, as you point out, 3 megabytes.

I believe Manuel Nova was thinking about writing a new scripting language for 
BusyBox, back when he had more time.  I believe I pointed him at Lua.

Rob
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