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People who agree with the overall philosophy of this will be interested in avesh, an attempt to write a full shell in CL. https://gitlab.com/ralt/avesh https:/

by 616c 11y ago

People who agree with the overall philosophy of this will be interested in avesh, an attempt to write a full shell in CL. https://gitlab.com/ralt/avesh https://gitlab.com/ralt/avesh I am also very interested in xonsh. I am increasingly of the opinion that as useful as a package manager would be like {bash,zsh} compliant shells written in host languages that allow you to merge bashisms/Unixisms into your host lang and vice versa. I started looking into this, specificaly with Haskell. I founde chrisdone's Hell and tangentially turtle. Combining those would be insane!

vram22 11y ago
There is/was also scsh, a Scheme shell for Unix.
- 616c 11y ago
  Well, yes, I am aware of it. I had trouble getting scsh to work well. Outside of Guile, I am not even sure what Scheme implementations are viable. I have played with Chicken and Gambit very minimally. IIRC, schs uses the MIT48 or a classic Scheme variant specific to it, and I do not know if there is anything "built" on top of that. Where as least other esoteric schemes (Chicken, Gambit, Gauche, etc.) are full environments people can code in, in theory. Guile is fascinating to me because this concept, subsumed into Emacs (a la the guile->elisp super project), means a very interesting idea that I think moves beyond the IDE. Some people here will poo poo that, but I find it very interesting as I have moved away from tmux and screen and into Emacs as my combined editor AND terminal manager. I know I know, where's the Unix philosophy. But, I like this. Soon I will play with this stack on top of Guix, and well, that is more Lisp Machine that I should be allowed to have.
  - vram22 11y ago
    Have you considered Racket? I believe its a sort of Scheme (experts, feel free to correct me) and a friend told me it has a small but good community. Also, an IDE, many libraries, etc.

by 616c 11y ago

vram22 11y ago

There is/was also scsh, a Scheme shell for Unix.

616c 11y ago
Well, yes, I am aware of it. I had trouble getting scsh to work well. Outside of Guile, I am not even sure what Scheme implementations are viable. I have played with Chicken and Gambit very minimally. IIRC, schs uses the MIT48 or a classic Scheme variant specific to it, and I do not know if there is anything "built" on top of that. Where as least other esoteric schemes (Chicken, Gambit, Gauche, etc.) are full environments people can code in, in theory. Guile is fascinating to me because this concept, subsumed into Emacs (a la the guile->elisp super project), means a very interesting idea that I think moves beyond the IDE. Some people here will poo poo that, but I find it very interesting as I have moved away from tmux and screen and into Emacs as my combined editor AND terminal manager. I know I know, where's the Unix philosophy. But, I like this. Soon I will play with this stack on top of Guix, and well, that is more Lisp Machine that I should be allowed to have.
- vram22 11y ago
  Have you considered Racket? I believe its a sort of Scheme (experts, feel free to correct me) and a friend told me it has a small but good community. Also, an IDE, many libraries, etc.