Cicada – Unix shell written in Rust
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Cicada – Unix shell written in Rust
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Re: Cicada – Unix shell written in Rust
#2Looks fully featured! Cool stuff.
I think people are going to ask "Why?" and "What's the difference between this and bash?" Might want to cover that in your README.
Re: Cicada – Unix shell written in Rust
#3Amazing work! Between this, Alacritty [1], and coreutils [2], we're getting pretty close to a plausible all-Rust CLI stack.
While Cicada is pretty clearly modeled on the "old" generation of shells (sh, Bash, Zsh, etc.), one has to wonder what a more modern shell might look to address some of the problems of its predecessors like pipes that are essentially text-only, poor composability (see `cut` or `xargs`), and terribly obscure syntax.
PowerShell seems to have been a flop outside of the Windows ecosystem, and between overly elaborate syntax and COM baggage, was probably rightfully passed over, but it probably had the right idea. Imagine a future where we're piping structured objects between programs, scripting in a modern language, and have IntelliSense quality auto-completion for every command.
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Re: Cicada – Unix shell written in Rust
#4Looks fully featured! Cool stuff. I think people are going to ask "Why?" and "What's the difference between this and bash?" Might want to cover that in your README.
The fact that there is a "Won't do list" stating that functions won't be supported...
I don't think this is anything more than a toy to play with rust.
Re: Cicada – Unix shell written in Rust
#5Note: Rust environment is needed for installation.
Why?
Re: Cicada – Unix shell written in Rust
#6Note: Rust environment is needed for installation. Why?
A rust installation is needed due to you having to compile it from source manually.
If binaries were to be distributed, a rust installation would not be needed.
Re: Cicada – Unix shell written in Rust
#7Amazing work! Between this, Alacritty [1], and coreutils [2], we're getting pretty close to a plausible all-Rust CLI stack. While Cicada is pretty clearly modeled on the "old" generation of shells (sh, Bash, Zsh, etc.), one has to wonder what a more modern shell might look to address some of the problems of its predecessors like pipes that are essentially text-only, poor composability (see `cut` or `xargs`), and terr…
My structured objects aren't your structured objects. In that use case why not use a dedicated program (like say ae python/js/clojure interpreter) to handle more complex pipes and keep the shell level primitves... Well, primitive.
Text is compatible with all systems, past and present, and can be used to model more complex objects. Let's not add features to the core on a "why not" please.
Re: Cicada – Unix shell written in Rust
#8Amazing work! Between this, Alacritty [1], and coreutils [2], we're getting pretty close to a plausible all-Rust CLI stack. While Cicada is pretty clearly modeled on the "old" generation of shells (sh, Bash, Zsh, etc.), one has to wonder what a more modern shell might look to address some of the problems of its predecessors like pipes that are essentially text-only, poor composability (see `cut` or `xargs`), and terr…
It seems a bit premature to say that PowerShell was passed over. The journey outside Windows has just started.
Indeed, PowerShell is onto something. Such delight it is to work with. Especially when you start to build your own tools for it.
Re: Cicada – Unix shell written in Rust
#9Amazing work! Between this, Alacritty [1], and coreutils [2], we're getting pretty close to a plausible all-Rust CLI stack. While Cicada is pretty clearly modeled on the "old" generation of shells (sh, Bash, Zsh, etc.), one has to wonder what a more modern shell might look to address some of the problems of its predecessors like pipes that are essentially text-only, poor composability (see `cut` or `xargs`), and terr…
Powershell is available on Linux these days, it was in 'alpha' version for a long time, apparently it's now 'beta'
Re: Cicada – Unix shell written in Rust
#10Amazing work! Between this, Alacritty [1], and coreutils [2], we're getting pretty close to a plausible all-Rust CLI stack. While Cicada is pretty clearly modeled on the "old" generation of shells (sh, Bash, Zsh, etc.), one has to wonder what a more modern shell might look to address some of the problems of its predecessors like pipes that are essentially text-only, poor composability (see `cut` or `xargs`), and terr…
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