Always good to see some love for the awk language. I, however l,went down the rabbit hole to find out about toybox and some background. Came back just puzzled (260 slides of slidedeck only for the message that it has a more permissive licence).
It’s also less of a grab-bag of random imported software than busybox, the tools are mostly written in a single style with some care taken to use the common library. (Making one utility smaller and making the whole multicall binary smaller are different goals.) The advantage is there’s much less redundant or disproportinately oversized stuff. The disadvantage is that most things need to be written anew, so there’s less stuff in general. (In particular, the author has spent a lot of time writing a shell and it’s still not ready).
