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I've always been interested in busybox and other similar tool sets - I even wrote a very simple set of coreutils clones at one point; but I've never really unde
by KuiN 7y ago
I've always been interested in busybox and other similar tool sets - I even wrote a very simple set of coreutils clones at one point; but I've never really understood the use case. I like Rust & I like using modern tools when there's a benefit. But whatever coreutils Apple ship or come with a reasonable Linux distro seem to work 99% of the time for my work. Simpler & smaller I get for restricted embedded, I'm sure I've used them doing embedded work with small ARM boards & a custom tiny Linux - but the payoffs have never seemed too enticing.
- saagarjha 7y agoBusybox is quite literally “POSIX in a box”. It’s useful to have on systems where you’d like a shell and some utilities but don’t want to bother with having anything fancy.