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C REPL in 50 lines of POSIX shell
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Yesterday, I found myself writing a little C throwaway script to test something out. That happens often enough to clutter my HOME and some other directories with these useless text files and binaries.So I thought that I can use a repl instead. Quick google search didn't find any good and tested solutions. So I wrote my own with help of a tcc compiler. Why POSIX Shell? Because it would be far too easy in a normal language (it'd probably take me ~10 minutes to rewrite this in Nim) and where is fun in that?
HN · launched May 7, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 89%) · 1 view
Niche: developer command-line tools · 226 launches, 5 in the last 7 days ▼ -67% · Explore this niche →
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- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes It is a short 50-line POSIX shell and awk script that wraps a C compiler to re-compile and run snippets in a loop, which an LLM can easily generate.
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Launched 189 days after the earliest competitor.
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