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Freebsd has used lua in its bootloader for a few years now.

https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2014/LuaLoader

https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2018-Feb...

Wow, it actually sounds like a very elegant idea. I always viewed GRUB as overly complex and rather unpleasant to configure. I wonder why they hadn't gone this way.

Grub also has an optional module run to Lua code https://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/grub-extras.git/tree/lu...

Note that we haven't yet introduced .lua configuration capabilities (that's a project branch off to the side), but it does certainly make modifying menu entries and other fun stuff a lot more palatable in my experience.

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