I've tried using Elixir's iex as a login shell. It was an interesting experience. The pipelining in Elixir actually makes it feel a lot like bash. In Elixir,

I've tried using Elixir's iex as a login shell. It was an interesting experience. The pipelining in Elixir actually makes it feel a lot like bash. In Elixir, remote shell [1], autocomplete are built in. Strings are binary. Structs help structure output for human vs machine use (e.g. see HTTPoison.get("http://example.org" http://example.org") vs. HTTPoison.get!("http://example.org" http://example.org"). Processes are cheap. Functions are compostable. Rock on! http://elixir-lang.org/docs/stable/iex/IEx.html#module-remote-shells http://elixir-lang.org/docs/stable/iex/IEx.html#module-remot...