Sorry, but bash isn't a "niche language" and it doesn't have an FFI story.

eep_social · 2024-09-29T19:13:18 1727637198

Behold, FFI for bash: https://github.com/taviso/ctypes.sh

jchw · 2024-09-29T18:40:05 1727635205

I don't know how to tell you this, but, you don't need to implement an RPC protocol in bash, nor do you need FFI. You can use CLI tools like `dbus-send`.

I pray to God nothing meaningful is actually doing what you are insinuating in any serious environment.

otabdeveloper4 · 2024-10-02T08:10:12 1727856612

I'm trying to tell you that something that isn't straceable and greappable shouldn't belong in your system services stack.

jchw · 2024-10-05T15:53:09 1728143589

Strace/ptrace is awful, and I don't know what "greappable" means here. Nothing stops us from adding DTrace probes.

ChoHag · 2024-09-30T06:54:17 1727679257

FFI is the shell's only job.