Xiki: The Command Revolution

#1

Post by svm33 » Mon, Jun 09, 2014, 4:54 PM UTC

Xiki: The Command Revolution
kickstarter.com

Re: Xiki: The Command Revolution

#2

Post by ori_b » Mon, Jun 09, 2014, 5:16 PM UTC

This looks suprisingly like Acme (http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/plan9/sys/doc/acme/acme.p...)

Re: Xiki: The Command Revolution

#3

Post by ryaniscool » Mon, Jun 09, 2014, 5:18 PM UTC

What is xiki? Why does it bring the power of the command line to everyone?

The kickstarter page seems to assume I know what xiki is and why it's different from say bash.

Re: Xiki: The Command Revolution

#4

Post by obilgic » Mon, Jun 09, 2014, 5:21 PM UTC

I watched the whole video, and I still have no idea how it would improve my life compared to using bash...

Re: Xiki: The Command Revolution

#5

Post by tnorthcutt » Mon, Jun 09, 2014, 5:23 PM UTC

My suggestion: lose the frantic, cheesy music in the video. It made watching the video thoroughly unpleasant.

Re: Xiki: The Command Revolution

#6

Post by gojomo » Mon, Jun 09, 2014, 5:29 PM UTC

obilgic wrote: post #4

I watched the whole video, and I still have no idea how it would improve my life compared to using bash...

Try also the 'Older Video' further down the page; it may especially help those familiar with usual shells/editors.

Re: Xiki: The Command Revolution

#7

Post by aroman » Mon, Jun 09, 2014, 5:29 PM UTC

Reminds me of https://github.com/unconed/TermKit

I really don't want or need this. It's solving a problem I don't have.

Re: Xiki: The Command Revolution

#8

Post by patkai » Mon, Jun 09, 2014, 5:29 PM UTC

This made me cranky. "What if?" Why on earth would I want to juggle like this?

Re: Xiki: The Command Revolution

#9

Post by raju » Mon, Jun 09, 2014, 5:30 PM UTC

Here is the Github repo - https://github.com/trogdoro/xiki and the official website - http://xiki.org/

Re: Xiki: The Command Revolution

#10

Post by spir » Mon, Jun 09, 2014, 5:33 PM UTC

tnorthcutt wrote: post #5

My suggestion: lose the frantic, cheesy music in the video. It made watching the video thoroughly unpleasant.

Seconded. It's like you're telling me, "we don't believe in our product so have some cheesy music to up the hype". Music was worst part. I was trying to ponder your invention and failed.

Corollary: spend years working on product, ruin it with one stupid customer-facing decision like annoying music. Talk about your one-percenter.