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That's reasonable, but Oil can still be useful to you as a dev tool, since it implements a very large and sane subset of bash. Some details here: http://www.o
by chubot 6y ago
That's reasonable, but Oil can still be useful to you as a dev tool, since it implements a very large and sane subset of bash. Some details here:
http://www.oilshell.org/why.html http://www.oilshell.org/why.html
And something I just released is a better "set -x", which no other shell has:
https://www.oilshell.org/release/0.8.7/doc/xtrace.html https://www.oilshell.org/release/0.8.7/doc/xtrace.html
So you could debug your programs with Oil if bash tracing isn't enough (which it often isn't for me).
Oil is also very easy to build and install -- all you need is a compiler, a shell, and make, and make will probably go away at some point.