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Cool! Reminds me of an AWK-based music generator I used to listen to while programming: http://kmkeen.com/awk-music/ I love when people use tools for bizarre things outside their intended purposes.

Yes. It has been great and I've written about it: http://kmkeen.com/c100p-tweaks/ Asus has released an updated version (C101) with USB-C: https://liliputing.com/2017/09/asus-chromebook-flip-c101-hits-us-299.h…

Well said. Dynamically linked packages managed by a package manager and created and distributed by maintainers is the Linux Way of doing things for multiple very good reasons. In fact, the article brilliant describes one of them: > Modern software distribution: AKA "actually free with no-ads apps store" of the Linux and BSD worlds. That's it. That's the advantage summed up in a single description that wasn't even intended as a description of the advantages of the current way of doing things! The article has a list of "cons", but it utterly fails to consider the possibility that this overwhelming advantage of what it calls "modern software distribution" is simply and inescapably tied to the maintainer-oriented approach that currently underlies it! Attempts to create modes of distribution that are even slightly different from maintainer-distribution (think Google Play) suck ass. For all its faults, F-droid is a vastly better platform because it insists that the software must be built and distributed by an F-droid maintainer. Stepping even further away into the realm of developer built opaque binaries is begging for chaos and misery. As you say, it's ultimately a security concern [1]. The article claims that a change is necessary because of "increased usage of languages and run-times that don't fit the current build model", "some of these new projects have large numbers ... of dependencies", but these are themselves problems with modern software development. Even putting…

There's also jshon which is a simple stack-based DSL for constructing JSON from shell scripts. http://kmkeen.com/jshon/ It's written in C and is not actively developed. The latest commit, it seems, was a pull request from me back in 2018 that fixed a null-termination issue that led to memory corruption. Because I couldn't rely on jshon being correct, I rewrote it in Haskell here: https://github.com/dapphub/dapptools/tree/master/src/jays This is also not developed actively but it's a single simple ~200 line Haskell program.

A more pleasant method could be: http://kmkeen.com/awk-music/

Someone used awk to make a generative synthesiser http://kmkeen.com/awk-music/

It's not about the ease of use (you need just a couple of lines in CMake to trigger the pkg-config scripts that every lib in the distribution has). It's about the people who work hard on maintaining the distributions. That's where the quality comes from. And not only for the libraries: http://kmkeen.com/maintainers-matter/

For shell scripting, jshon is also very useful ( http://kmkeen.com/jshon ).

The Asus Flip has very similar hardware (same chip) and it runs Arch ARM. http://kmkeen.com/c100p-tweaks/index.html So almost definitely yes...

Many examples here. Also search for "tiny ..." or "minimal ..." with more search terms to narrow down the category http://kmkeen.com/tiny-code/index.html

For more elaborate stuff, you can also use jshon (http://kmkeen.com/jshon/).

Here is my contribution to Unix friendly JSON command line tools (requires Node.js and NPM): https://github.com/zpoley/json-command. Here are a couple other good ones: http://kmkeen.com/jshon/ https://github.com/micha/jsawk

I've just listened to the mp3 linked from the page (http://kmkeen.com/tmp/awkbient.mp3) and I've heard the sounds I've described. I hear it like "(loud:) dong (quieter:) brrr-brrr-bbrrr (loud:) dong (quieter:) brrr-brrr-brrr (loud:) dong" The brr-brr sounds are the unpleasant ones. I hear them also when listening to wav made by lame --decode of mp3.

This reminds me of AWK Music http://kmkeen.com/awk-music/

http://kmkeen.com/jshon/ or python -mjson piped to $editor

Also of interest: http://kmkeen.com/arch-wiki-lite/

Also see http://www.kmkeen.com/jshon/