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A high level language for low level code

Lightningat FOSDEM 2013 · on Saturday, 2013-02-02· at 15:20· Ferrer

speaker

name:Justin Cormack

website:https://ignorepreviousdirections.com/

resources

video:https://video.fosdem.org/2013/lightningtalks/A_high_level_language_for_low_level_code.webm

slides:none on file

summary

ljsyscall uses Lua (via LuaJIT's FFI) to provide direct bindings to the Linux kernel ABI so you can call system calls, manage signals and processes, manipulate containers and network interfaces, and work with routing/netlink from a scripting REPL. It targets embedded/containerized and exploratory use cases as a lightweight, readable alternative to C (similar in spirit to busybox), runs on x86/amd64/ARM, is MIT-licensed, and still expanding netlink coverage.

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