Forking is Cool, or: A Unix Shell in Zig, or: Dave Learns How to Fork - ratfactor

Moving beyond fork() + exec()

Since the earliest days of Unix, two of the core process-oriented system calls have been fork() [...]

Systems Programming with Zig

Zig delivers performance, reliability, and complex integration in systems programming in a simple, modern package. Zig hits the sweet spot for systems programming. This new programming language is high-performance, low-level, ultra-reliable, and perfectly suited for serious projects like writing libraries, daemons and shell utilities, and even operating systems and embedded code. Systems Programming with Zig shows you how to write quality, useful Zig applications without relying on libraries or frameworks-even if you’re new systems programming. In Systems Programming with Zig you’ll learn how to: Understand the Zig perspective on systems programming Write idiomatic Zig code Integrate Zig with C, systems libraries, and scripting languages Networking, interpreters, and graphics from the ground up Unlike UI-centric applications that form the public face of your software, systems programs like OS kernels, device drivers, and utilities interact directly with the hardware or operating system. In these low-level programs, performance and safety are paramount. Zig is a new programming language that builds on the legacy of C, C++, and even Rust to provide a high-productivity systems programming environment that does not rely on awkward libraries and frameworks.

Thorsten Ball - Why threads can't fork

There is an interesting thread on the Go issue tracker about daemonizing processes. Most of the thread is not about daemonizing processes though, but more about why Go has no Fork() function which you can call directly in your code. The first time I read through it I was wondering and saying to myself: “Yeah, why is there no Fork()? It surely can’t be that hard to implement.” After all you can already call system calls with the syscall package. As I read more and more I realized that the problem is not implementing Fork() per se, but rather implementing Fork() to work safely in a multi-threaded environment, which most Go programs are. So I tried to find out why.

butter-dot-dev/bVisor

Embedded bash sandbox for agents, inspired by gVisor

meszmate/zigzag

A Terminal UI framework for Zig

Ratatui

Ratatui: Cook up delicious terminal user interfaces in Rust - the fast and lightweight TUI library trusted by developers

About the book | A guide to a-Shell

a-Shell is not only a terminal emulator for iOS/iPadOS, but also an environment with a set of useful libraries, where you can run basic Unix commands and other tricky tools.

nicobailon/pi-interactive-shell

Pi coding agent extension that allows Pi to autonomously control interactive CLIs in an observable overlay. Full PTY emulation, no tmux, token efficient. User can take over anytime.

Terminal UI the Easy Way: BubbleTEA

For the past 18 months I've been tinkering with a terminal application that serves as an Algorand node frontend. I had a number of requireme...

wterm | Terminal Emulator for the Web

A terminal emulator for the web. Renders to the DOM, powered by Zig/WASM.

Running Tangled.sh locally for development... - Wills thoughts

... without having NixOS running on your machine (kinda)

axum::middleware - Rust

Utilities for writing middleware

Terminal DAW Does It In Style

As any Linux chat room or forum will tell you, the most powerful tool to any Linux user is a terminal emulator. Just about every program under the sun has a command line alternative, be it CAD, not…

shepherd-agents/shepherd

A runtime substrate that turns an agent's execution into a reversible, Git-like trace, so meta-agents can observe, fork, replay, and revert any run. Couples agent and environments in a copy-on-write fork ~5x faster than docker commit, with ~95% KV-cache reuse on replay. Framework built for meta-agents to supervise, optimize, and train other agents

sxyazi/yazi

💥 Blazing fast terminal file manager written in Rust, based on async I/O.