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Call me old. But I want my shell to be a tight binary, preferably distributed (at some point) by major distros. This needs freakin' Node.js. I'm more looking in the Rust/Haskell/OCaml direction for a hip bash/zsh replacement.
another lisp shell: https://scsh.net/
scsh is awesome, although I don't believe it was intended to be used interactively. eshell[0] is another one. Has a few warts, but is generally pretty cool. Someday I'd like to write one in Common Lisp. Just haven't gotten a round tuit yet. [0] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/eshell.h...
Nice, I've been waiting for a good modern shell to replace ZSH. Fish just wasn't enough of an improvement for me to abandon ZSH. This is an area where most open-source developers have avoided, as it's a "solved" problem, but it really isn't. I'm currently waiting on Elvish [1] to mature. It's written in Go [2], but they're developing a new language on top of it for shell scripting, which I tried for a week. It's a ni…
[0] http://xon.sh
Call me old. But I want my shell to be a tight binary, preferably distributed (at some point) by major distros. This needs freakin' Node.js. I'm more looking in the Rust/Haskell/OCaml direction for a hip bash/zsh replacement.
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i mean, really what is the point of Node ?
It's a highly performant platform, based on a rapidly evolving language that's easy to understand. As such it's largely democratised server/shell programming to millions of users and web developers who could have been turned off by more advanced syntaxes and programming concepts. These people have created millions of open source packages which now dwarf most other communities, and the platform has unlocked an incredi…
Nice, I've been waiting for a good modern shell to replace ZSH. Fish just wasn't enough of an improvement for me to abandon ZSH. This is an area where most open-source developers have avoided, as it's a "solved" problem, but it really isn't. I'm currently waiting on Elvish [1] to mature. It's written in Go [2], but they're developing a new language on top of it for shell scripting, which I tried for a week. It's a ni…
I've found the complete opposite to be the case. This is one area where there are hundreds of different shells out there as it seems a "cool" thing to try since it's basically just an extension of writing your own language. Most never go beyond pet projects though.
If you're curious about Go shells, I'm writing one too[1]. It's also alpha but you can already write some reasonably complex scripts in it since it supports message passing, network sockets and background processes. It's definitely not fast though. Fast enough for what I need it to do but there's plenty of room for performance tuning once in beta.
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i mean, really what is the point of Node ?
It's a highly performant platform, based on a rapidly evolving language that's easy to understand. As such it's largely democratised server/shell programming to millions of users and web developers who could have been turned off by more advanced syntaxes and programming concepts. These people have created millions of open source packages which now dwarf most other communities, and the platform has unlocked an incredi…
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It's a highly performant platform, based on a rapidly evolving language that's easy to understand. As such it's largely democratised server/shell programming to millions of users and web developers who could have been turned off by more advanced syntaxes and programming concepts. These people have created millions of open source packages which now dwarf most other communities, and the platform has unlocked an incredi…
yes, and thankyou for answering. Why use Node over the JVM ?