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You know it's a pun on conch shell, right? ;-)
Wouldn't it make more sense if it was called "Ponsh" then? Heck, now that I think of it, "posh" would be a perfect name for a Python-powered shell.
This looks very promising: >>> ls `a(a+|b+)a` aaa aba abba Regex filename matching triggered by backticks. I like that design choice!
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You know it's a pun on conch shell, right? ;-)
Wouldn't it make more sense if it was called "Ponsh" then? Heck, now that I think of it, "posh" would be a perfect name for a Python-powered shell.
Xonsh is awesome! Execute Python directly on the command line?! Sign me up! Sadly it doesn't play well with all of my three thousand various vim plugins, so I still haven't been able to use it as my daily shell. Hopefully someday!
XonSH has been my main shell for a solid two years now. The concept is awesome, but unfortunately it has many flaws. * Nesting bash and python scripts makes performance terrible compared to using python's subprocess module directly. I have a xonsh script at [0], with an equivalent written in straight bash. The python scripts ends in less than a second, the xonsh script takes ages. - As a sub-problem of the above: You…
$ yes test | tee /tmp/xonsh.log
$ wc -l /tmp/xonsh.log
208076 /tmp/xonsh.log
XonSH has been my main shell for a solid two years now. The concept is awesome, but unfortunately it has many flaws. * Nesting bash and python scripts makes performance terrible compared to using python's subprocess module directly. I have a xonsh script at [0], with an equivalent written in straight bash. The python scripts ends in less than a second, the xonsh script takes ages. - As a sub-problem of the above: You…
“Uh ok so I have this JSON file. When I pipe this to `jq` I forget: to pivot an array of objects to an object keyed by array[x].id is it like `to_entries` then chain it to `map`? Uhh let’s look at the docs...”
However in Python I can write that function at the speed of thought. It may be a couple more lines of code but I’m also 100% confident in the output.
Like I understand some people can legitimately program in bash [0]. But I just can’t bring myself to practice. Why would anyone inflict this language on themselves?
[0] https://github.com/docker-library/python/blob/master/update....
Sounds neat. However, the fact that `ls -l` either subtracts two numbers or calls a shell command, depending on whether there exist valriables 'ls' and 'l' in the Pythom environment, looks like a security nightmare waiting to happen. What if I create a python object 'ls' deep inside a script that does Evil when subtracted from?
What's stopping a Bash script from doing something similar? You could alias ls to a malicious actor for example.
It's the reason './' is not in the default path as well (so you can't place an 'ls' in your home directory and have the admin run your command instead of the real ls).
I've always been thinking there can be a better shell like having a split pane to show the list of command options with descriptions as you start typing in the command or show snippets of a preset of command options that does task X as in search by use case instead of going to stackoverflow every time. I think the way people handle shell, as in typing commands on a dumb shell, has not improved for decades and I don't…
I'm really tempted to try xnosh again as my daily driver for a few weeks though. I like the idea of typing out arbitrary Python code without spawning up IPython.
The problems people seem to be stating about xonsh were similar to a lot of the early bugs with Fish, but those things tend to go away once more people start using the shell and reporting issues.
I hope we got a whole new generation of usable shells with xonsh, oil and fish.
I love the concept, and I am generally happy with how it works. I think it should catch on. Except the damned name. Come on guys , there are already enough crazily named things out there, you didn't have to be another one :(
I will say I prefer names that can be searched for on their own (e.g. with Go people typically search for "Go lang").
And as much as I love Void Linux, it's better named than all the xbps-* package manager commands.