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What's Happened Since February?
- ChrisRR 7y agoWhy is that website so narrow? It only takes up about 20% of the width of my monitor
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- charliesharding 7y agomobile first! :D
- wnevets 7y agoI think that's actually mobile only
- michaelcampbell 7y agoAbout the same as the main page of this site.
- tenpies 7y agoI actually quite like it though. Takes less eye movement to traverse along each sentences.
- OJFord 7y agoI think it's a mistake, it's due to: .skinny { width: 30em; } on `body`. To me at least `.skinny` suggests there's a non-skinny style it should be picking up on non-mobile/small screens, but isn't. edit: Ah, yes, there is also a `.wider` (not being used) at `45em`.
- frou_dh 7y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9238739 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9238739
- bovermyer 7y agoTo answer your question directly: because it's more legible and follows sane typographical practices. Also: why in the nine hells are you critiquing the design of the site instead of talking about the content of the article?
- russh 7y agoI like it. I can Zoom in 300% and easily read the text with my outdated prescription glasses.
- canadaduane 7y agoOil is a promising attempt to make a backwards-compatible but progressively better and more sane unix shell. I look forward to trying it out!
- RobertRoberts 7y agoI use unix (linux) every day, what does Oil fix that is wrong with bash/shell? (I am not a power user per se, so genuinely curious what I am missing out on)
- iimblack 7y agoHere's a page from the developer explaining this: http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2018/01/28.html http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2018/01/28.html
- yorwba 7y ago"Why Create a New Unix Shell?": http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2018/01/28.html http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2018/01/28.html If you want just one example, automatic completion in bash uses a bash parser written in bash, incompatible with the bash interpreter's own parser. OSH uses the same parser for both the interpreter and the completion engine. https://github.com/oilshell/oil/issues/208#issuecomment-449658088 https://github.com/oilshell/oil/issues/208#issuecomment-4496...
- threwawasy1228 7y agoSeems like a very confusing name for a shell, seeing this without knowing the context I saw 'Oil', 'Shell' and assumed that it was about some oil spill or event with Shell Oil that happened in February I was unaware of. Looks like an interesting project regardless.
- Brakenshire 7y agoI’d say the developer is making their life much more difficult by using such a confusing name, which is a pity because the project looks really interesting.
- richardhod 7y agoAgreed. Also mods, please can we alter the title to something more descriptive and less baity?
- chubot 7y agoI wrote a FAQ answering this: http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2019/06/17.html#toc_0 http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2019/06/17.html#toc_0
- winter_blue 7y agoA slight tangent: I discovered the Zephyr ASDL (Abstract Syntax Description Language) by looking at the oilshell blog: https://www.oilshell.org/blog/tags.html?tag=ASDL#ASDL https://www.oilshell.org/blog/tags.html?tag=ASDL#ASDL There are interesting posts about the ADSL, as well as about implementing interpreters in that blog. Definitely piqued my interest as someone passionate about language design.
- hawski 7y agoThe most interesting part for me is MyPy to C++ conversion. I understand it's easier that way. It certainly makes it easier to package Oil. It's a necessary step to bootstrap all the work. Certainly such a conversion tool would be in interests of wider community, so I wonder is there any more movement in the area. I have a small hope that it will eventually go off C++, because it may be impossible to change mind of significant part of Unix community. But it's all good, because work involved is outstanding already.
- simonebrunozzi 7y agoThe "Oil Project" was an open-source education initiative run by Marco De Rossi in Italy, ~10 years ago. It turned into WeSchool, a successful education business in Italy.