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   anna (navi@social.vlhl.dev)'s status on Thursday, 10-Apr-2025 03:17:09 JST anna
   what about a lua-like vm library, but, it's posix shell, and you can feed it c functions as built-ins, as well as call shell functions from c
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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Thursday, 10-Apr-2025 03:17:08 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @navi Well bash has support for adding builtins so I guess it's kind of close? (And AFAIK it's bash-only so unlikely to get into POSIX soon)
     
     Although full C from shell… I feel like it would make more sense to make something like `tcc -run` work closer to a repl.
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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Thursday, 10-Apr-2025 03:22:10 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @navi yeah sadly calling C functions from another language isn't that easy, bit why Unixes still have a bunch of commands that are defined as just wrappers (bindings? ^^) on C functions (link, unlink, logname, sleep, nice, basename, …).
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     anna (navi@social.vlhl.dev)'s status on Thursday, 10-Apr-2025 03:22:12 JST anna

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
     @lanodan the idea is more of a vm which would mean you don't have to fork off a shell multiple times then pipe results back, aka using posix sh as your scripting language or smth