actually I do lots of embedded, busybox is about 2MB and bash is 1MB, unless the resource is extremely restricted I just install bash for scripting purposes. p

actually I do lots of embedded, busybox is about 2MB and bash is 1MB, unless the resource is extremely restricted I just install bash for scripting purposes. python is about 4.5MB and Lua is about 200K, both run on top of a shell anyways, and need some packages to be fully useful. To be fair adding 200KB Lua (no luarocks etc) on top of a shell is useful sometimes on embedded system, but I rarely need that.