Thanks for the suggestion. I am not familiar with yocto. 
If they can cross compile Python (that is very hard, as google results show), 
it would be great. I'll look at it. 

Regards, 
Pavel A 

> On 17 Mar 2017, at 17:23, Laszlo Papp <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Why do you need a scripting language in the busybox project?
> 
> Cannot you just generate the platform with things like a small subset of 
> python using Yocto or something similar?
> 
>> On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 3:20 PM, Pavel Aronsky <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>> Apologies for maybe a wild or off-topic question.
>> After dealing with quite a few products with busybox and its ash shell used 
>> as the primary scripting language, I'd like to ask you, busybox experts: 
>> what are alternatives?
>> 
>> This page: https://busybox.net/tinyutils.html  - mentions Lua and 
>> Micro-perl. I'd rather perfer a small subset of Python, but cold not find 
>> one after a day of googling (this is surprising. I've been sure such things 
>> exists).
>> 
>> However my search hit one interesting Javascript engine named Duktape 
>> (duktape.org).
>> 
>> Javascript looks almost as good as Python for me, it is popular and should 
>> be familiar to new developers. Lua is less familiar, but much better for 
>> writing moderately simple app logic than the *dreadful* shell language.
>> 
>> So the question: how feasible would be inclusion of Lua or Javascript into 
>> BB, as option for systems where one of these languages will be heavy used?
>> 
>> As "plan B": has anyone seen (or thought of) a FFI interface for BB that 
>> would allow to call shared libraries written in C, from ash?
>> 
>> Thanks in advance,
>> 
>> Pavel A.
>> 
>> 
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