Xiki: An amazing shell • Hacker News Board

Re: Xiki: An amazing shell

#11

Post by kevcampb » Mon, Jul 07, 2014, 8:59 AM UTC

This feels very like what iPython notebooks provides, but applied to shell commands rather than code.

It's a cute video, but I can't quite help feeling this is going to be far less useful in practice than it's made out to be.

Re: Xiki: An amazing shell

#12

Post by signa11 » Mon, Jul 07, 2014, 9:01 AM UTC

umm, lot of these can (which is the operative word here) be made to work together with plan9's acme...

Re: Xiki: An amazing shell

#13

Post by nodesocket » Mon, Jul 07, 2014, 9:02 AM UTC

kevcampb wrote: post #11

This feels very like what iPython notebooks provides, but applied to shell commands rather than code. It's a cute video, but I can't quite help feeling this is going to be far less useful in practice than it's made out to be.

I tend to agree. The biggest leap for me was switching to oh-my-zsh (near life changing). :-)

Re: Xiki: An amazing shell

#14

Post by noinsight » Mon, Jul 07, 2014, 9:05 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.

> It's really great to see someone really thinking from scratch about the shell

Arguably, PowerShell is shell reinvented too. But IMO someone definitely should revamp the Unix shell. If we're not talking about the actual functionality (commands etc.) but the "building blocks", I actually like PowerShell more than traditional Unix shells at this point.

This shell however fails to impress me, I don't see the point.

Re: Xiki: An amazing shell

#15

Post by jsmthrowaway » Mon, Jul 07, 2014, 9:07 AM UTC

The fact that this shell has Twitter functionality is a signal, and I can't decide if it's a negative signal or not. I've worked very hard to avoid a Twitter capable refrigerator.

Re: Xiki: An amazing shell

#16

Post by DanBC » Mon, Jul 07, 2014, 9:09 AM UTC

noinsight wrote: post #14

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.

> It's really great to see someone really thinking from scratch about the shell Arguably, PowerShell is shell reinvented too. But IMO someone definitely should revamp the Unix shell. If we're not talking about the actual functionality (commands etc.) but the "building blocks", I actually like PowerShell more than traditional Unix shells at this point. This shell however fails to impress me, I don't see the point.