On Wednesday, 18 October 2017 at 03:48:01 UTC, Ky-Anh Huynh wrote:
Hi,
I'm using Bash heavily in my systems. Things become slow and
slow when I have tons of scripts :) And sometimes it's not easy
to manipulate data.
You may have heard of recutils [1] which has a C extension to
be loaded by Bash. Is it possible to write similar things in D,
for Bash? I am not good at C; it's great if I explore this
field:)
Some examples in C are in [2].
My experience: Dlang has `pipe` support however the syntax is
not as clean as Bash :) Most of the times I see short (<1k loc)
Bash scripts are easy to maintain than Ruby (and now D things)
scripts.
Thanks for your reading.
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15302035
[2]:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bash.git/tree/examples/loadables/cat.c
You can write your script in D using
#!/usr/local/bin/rdmd
as shebang line.
Or, using dstep, you can convert C headers to D imports, so you
can compile your own extension in D.
Andrea
