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This is really interesting! I think that the scalable approach like you proposed in your thesis makes a lot of sense, but comes at some cost to the user experie

This is really interesting! I think that the scalable approach like you proposed in your thesis makes a lot of sense, but comes at some cost to the user experience. Rather than being 'smart' and automating everything, we want to make developing apps really easy and familiar. I'm curious what the biggest challenges were for you with the project? Maybe we could build on your research.

oezi 6y ago
It has been a long time, but I think we struggled most with: - What is the best architecture to enable this? I think we struggled a lot with wanting to hook on the shell level where the commands are managed, the UI client where the user interface would have to be shown and terminal emulation where it is all key strokes and cursors. Today I believe that this would really need something like the Language Server Protocol being implemented in bash itself. Today we have bash completion scripts, but still not something as comprehensive as needed. - How to separate everything into reusable blocks? For instance extracting parameters from man pages, storing as generic config files, whether to offer a DSL for designing the UIs, etc. We did not want to be stuck with one particular terminal, such as KDE's Konsole (for which a student did another prototype [1] in German). [1] https://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/inst/ag-se/theses/QuintelaGarciaL06-command-line.pdf https://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/inst/ag-se/theses/QuintelaGarci...