Two recent conversations from this year. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35124056 (203 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33419944 (247 comments)
Also related from a few hours ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36309864
NuShell: A New Type of Shell
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Re: NuShell: A New Type of Shell
#12Is it a new kind of shell or a clone of powershell? What does it do better than pwsh? I'm genuinely curious because the Readme isn't really convincing.
Re: NuShell: A New Type of Shell
#13As someone who programs for a few years, I really dig their scripting language. I am a huge fan of small scripts but always found bash scripting scary as it is quite unique. Googling a specific thing and seeing some awk solution is just scary for me (like regex was before I understood it). That's not bad but I prefer having easily maintainable code for a small script. Nu's principles and influence from modern languag…
Imagine being a programmer and being scared of a simple scripting language
Re: NuShell: A New Type of Shell
#14As someone who programs for a few years, I really dig their scripting language. I am a huge fan of small scripts but always found bash scripting scary as it is quite unique. Googling a specific thing and seeing some awk solution is just scary for me (like regex was before I understood it). That's not bad but I prefer having easily maintainable code for a small script. Nu's principles and influence from modern languag…
Imagine being a programmer and being scared of a simple scripting language
Once you become a bit more experienced and wise you'll understand!
Re: NuShell: A New Type of Shell
#15As someone who programs for a few years, I really dig their scripting language. I am a huge fan of small scripts but always found bash scripting scary as it is quite unique. Googling a specific thing and seeing some awk solution is just scary for me (like regex was before I understood it). That's not bad but I prefer having easily maintainable code for a small script. Nu's principles and influence from modern languag…
Imagine being a programmer and being scared of a simple scripting language
Bash is not simple. It’s unforgiving in many unique ways. And it’s difficult to master, unless you code in it every day, which is not a norm for most of us. And if you didn’t master it it’s dangerous, because it’s unforgiving. So it goes.