Frankly this about page sucks. I want to like this project, but there is only one sentence on what it's supposed to replace and why. Apparently this is supposed to be better than busybox somehow. No information on why busybox sucks, no information on how sbase sucks less. Is sbase better because it is smaller, faster, better architected, more POSIX compliant, more useful features, what? What are the tradeoffs for this? If you're going to make the claim that you suck less, at least say WHY you suck less.<p>Even Google doesn't seem to know what sucks less about suckless. The best I could come up with was "sbase vs busybox" which leads me to [1], where this exact question was asked, to which the response by the project creator was "The busybox code sucks." Not helpful at all, which was pointed out one post later, to which another project member said "Try to read it [the code?] and understand it." Great. Like I have time to read the code of every project before I decide to use it.<p>[1] <a href="https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=176854" rel="nofollow">https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=176854</a>
Suckless gets a bad rep (probably because of their openness about their opinions of the projects of which they create alternatives); but, honestly, they have made some of my absolute favorite utilities. dwm, dmenu and st serve as the foundation for my whole workflow.<p>I'd love to see a whole suckless OS someday. I know it's been around for some time, but it seems like this might be the first step towards that.
I can't stand the attitude of the suckless project. Apparently all software is bloated unless in it is written in C, statically linked, and configured only by modifying a config.h file and rebuilding.<p>Thanks, but I'll just keep on using the GNU coreutils, Emacs, etc.
Wait. Is that really related to suckless.org? I've just checked that suckless.org Unix tools are called "9base", not "Sbase", and is different code. Could someone explain that?<p><a href="http://git.suckless.org/9base/tree/cal/cal.c" rel="nofollow">http://git.suckless.org/9base/tree/cal/cal.c</a>
<a href="http://git.2f30.org/sbase/tree/cal.c" rel="nofollow">http://git.2f30.org/sbase/tree/cal.c</a><p><a href="http://tools.suckless.org/" rel="nofollow">http://tools.suckless.org/</a>