Ced
C REPL in 50 lines of POSIX shell
Details
- External ID
- 48048319
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Ced
- Website domain
- codeberg.org
- Launched
- May 7, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.1147011308562197
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
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?
Enrichment
- Theme
- self-hosted infrastructure and security tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- c repl for shell
- Manually corrected
- False
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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