Xiki: An amazing shell

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Post by jestinjoy1 » Mon, Jul 07, 2014, 8:26 AM UTC

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Post by azinman2 » Mon, Jul 07, 2014, 8:38 AM UTC

Holy freaking crap that's amazing. I love how the video all of the sudden starts to show 9000 features/ways it can be used. Looks like the paradigm adapts well to many different common workflows.

It's really great to see someone really thinking from scratch about the shell -- something that very rarely goes through any meaningful changes like this. I hope this project goes far and becomes the new default.

Re: Xiki: An amazing shell

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Post by chx » Mon, Jul 07, 2014, 8:48 AM UTC

IMO this should link to https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/xiki/xiki-the-command-r... and not one of the most awful, bottom feeder sites out there. I challenge you to find a single bit of information on the TC page that is not on the Kickstarter page.

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Post by trollol » Mon, Jul 07, 2014, 8:49 AM UTC

Great.. Wake me up when it hits 1.0.

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Post by SimonDawlat » Mon, Jul 07, 2014, 8:49 AM UTC

The video is amazing.

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Post by jestinjoy1 » Mon, Jul 07, 2014, 8:50 AM UTC

The most revolutionist change to a shell. The feature i found very much interesting is "in xiki commands can be run from the notes"

Re: Xiki: An amazing shell

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jul 07, 2014, 8:53 AM UTC

chx wrote: post #3

IMO this should link to https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/xiki/xiki-the-command-r... and not one of the most awful, bottom feeder sites out there. I challenge you to find a single bit of information on the TC page that is not on the Kickstarter page.

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Post by leorocky » Mon, Jul 07, 2014, 8:54 AM UTC

I quite like fish and have been using it painlessly for nearly 6 months now. I wish fish included an actual programming language that could replace bash scripts, but the sane advice from fish devs is to use a real programming language instead of bash or another shell script. Other than that I've become quite dependent on the nice autocomplete and suggestions from fish. It just works and I never have to deal with any problems once you get over the initial learning curve bump which isn't that big.

Re: Xiki: An amazing shell

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Post by shurcooL » Mon, Jul 07, 2014, 8:55 AM UTC

azinman2 wrote: post #2

Holy freaking crap that's amazing. I love how the video all of the sudden starts to show 9000 features/ways it can be used. Looks like the paradigm adapts well to many different common workflows. It's really great to see someone really thinking from scratch about the shell -- something that very rarely goes through any meaningful changes like this. I hope this project goes far and becomes the new default.

Yeah, reminds me of https://twitter.com/korkyplunger/status/485729264432472065.

Re: Xiki: An amazing shell

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Post by leorocky » Mon, Jul 07, 2014, 8:56 AM UTC

chx wrote: post #3

IMO this should link to https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/xiki/xiki-the-command-r... and not one of the most awful, bottom feeder sites out there. I challenge you to find a single bit of information on the TC page that is not on the Kickstarter page.

Eh, I don't think Techcrunch is so bad. They don't usually have link baity titles like wired, they genuinely try to do a good job reporting on new startups and many yc companies get an initial post on TC which gives them that first boost of users. A Techcrunch article and Techcrunch coverage is like one of the biggest boosts from getting into YC.