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OpenWrt, now 20 years old, is crafting its own future-proof reference hardware (arstechnica.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] j4k3 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm curious what you're really referring to with Lua. (casual hobbyist here) Is that the UCI implementation stuff? I tried to use my intermediate Linux desktop user experience with bash in OpenWRT, but geez that is frustrating without all the bash extras I'm accustomed/detailed help/manual pages. That on top of trying to figure out NFTables is still a bit too much for my little brain to compress. I just started messing with UCI commands so I haven't looked under the hood on that one.

Any ideal device recommendations for fun chipsets to seek out and play with for embedded stuff in this space?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

The web UI backend stuff is all done in Lua. So receiving and processing forms was all Lua. My main feature that I implemented was a REST API that was called from another product that my company sold. So I had to do all the REST API processing and data validation and whatnot in Lua.

I don't really have recommendations, because I really only knew our product. If I knew what I get, I probably would have got that instead of the Asus router that I ended up with when I had to return my work materials.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

You should try awesome wm