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OpenWrt, now 20 years old, is crafting its own future-proof reference hardware (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 7 points 2 years ago (2 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?

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    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.

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