Re: LuaJIT project ideas: Bash 5.0
- From: soumith <soumith@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: luajit <luajit@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2014 08:18:29 -0700
Karel, what are the two existing js->lua transpilers that you mention?
On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 11:02 PM, Karel Tuma <kat@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Excerpts from Alek Paunov's message of 2014-10-04 03:53:19 +0200:
> > I am rising the topic, with hope that at least in sequence of the recent
> > Bash related discussions [1], many list members have meditated on this
> > already :-).
>
> I see what you did there, but this is not simple matter of libressl move,
> ie cosmetic polishing of existing codebase now that security bug provides
> the
> tabloid media spotlight opening for a superhero fork - you know, the
> messiah
> Superman which will protect citizens of Metropolis once and for all, from
> evil hackers who eat brains of babies for breakfast and drink blood of
> virgins
> at night...
>
> This is "API" reimplementation in Lua from scratch. A rather daring
> undertaking. Which means many man-months to complete. There are for example
> two existing JS->Lua transpilers implementing (unfortunately rather
> superficial)
> NodeJS API, you might want to take a look at those to gauge the amount of
> work
> involved...
>
> Still, a drop-in shell-to-lj transpiler for bash would be a neat thing,
> if anything just for the performance boost alone.
>
> IMO:
>
> 1) why bash 5.0? the codebases (and maintainer i presume) would be
> unrelated
> 2) any (technical) rationale for ljsyscall? why not just posix ..
> 3) Just do it :)
>
>
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