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My dream shell is not a bash superset, in fact it's as far from bash as possible (because I don't know bash, and won't ever know bash). I dream of a python/node
by bmacho 5y ago
My dream shell is not a bash superset, in fact it's as far from bash as possible (because I don't know bash, and won't ever know bash). I dream of a python/nodejs shell that can list files, and run and pipe programs.
Like xonsh, but even less bash-y.
- hnlmorg 5y agoI hear this opinion a lot but the reason such shells don’t take off is because most of the time in a shell you’re writing the same short snippets over and over. The burden of doing that becomes annoying after a while in some of the more verbose languages. Thus shells favour read once and write many syntaxes.