Cicada: A Bash-like Unix shell written in Rust

Post by unwrap » Tue, Jul 09, 2019, 7:52 AM UTC

yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #7

johnklos wrote: post #2

Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly. -- Henry Spencer Yay! Non-portable Unix tools! Just what everyone wants.

This isn't reinventing Unix, this is a (cut down part of) Unix. (Unix the family, not the original Bell Labs OS, of course). And "non-portable" because it's only portable to Unix? That's... Approximately everything. Linux family and Darwin naively, NT via WSL/cygwin/etc., BSDs obviously, Android sorta-natively or via Termux, Chrome OS via Termux, crouton, or crostani(sp?). What is Unix not portable to?

Post by gpvos » Tue, Jul 09, 2019, 8:47 AM UTC

dang wrote: post #11

mitnk wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, I submited once on HN about this project two years ago. Since then quite a few new features have been added and some improvements are made. So it's time to expand the user base a bit :) Now cicada shell is still have some issues, but overall it's quite usable. I hope it could be useful for people who are seeking simplicity and speed in daily use of the shell.

It's fine to repost after that much time has gone by. This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html .

Post by armitron » Tue, Jul 09, 2019, 10:41 AM UTC

dmix wrote: post #6

Interesting. Having the core terminal/language down is a good start. An important part of any terminal will be it's support for plugins/extensions or otherwise natively replacing them the way Fish tries to do. I've recently started using https://elv.sh/ as my primary terminal after testing it out on/off for 2yrs and slowly porting old ZSH aliases/scripts into the Elvish language (very similar to Go which it runs on),…

Post by madmax96 » Tue, Jul 09, 2019, 12:53 PM UTC

  cicada> echo -e '#!/bin/sh\necho works' > /bin/1
  cicada> chmod +x /bin/1
  cicada> 1
  1

  bash> 1
  works

  cicada> touch a b; echo "$(echo "$(echo "$(ls)")")"
  $(echo $(echo a
  b

  bash> echo "$(echo "$(echo "$(ls)")")"
  a
  b

Post by dmix » Tue, Jul 09, 2019, 2:21 PM UTC

armitron wrote: post #16

dmix wrote: post #6

Interesting. Having the core terminal/language down is a good start. An important part of any terminal will be it's support for plugins/extensions or otherwise natively replacing them the way Fish tries to do. I've recently started using https://elv.sh/ as my primary terminal after testing it out on/off for 2yrs and slowly porting old ZSH aliases/scripts into the Elvish language (very similar to Go which it runs on),…

The right term for what you refer to as terminal(s) is shell. A terminal (or a terminal emulator) is not a shell and, moreover, a shell does not necessarily require a terminal.