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I look forward to that blog post, I hope that can clear up some of the confusion. Personally I found that the best introduction for me to actually understand w

by Arcuru 4y ago

I look forward to that blog post, I hope that can clear up some of the confusion. Personally I found that the best introduction for me to actually understand what the different parts do (mainly OSH and Oil Shell) was the Github wiki, particularly "OSH versus Oil" and the two Migration guide posts. Even reading several of your posts, I didn't fully understand what being "an upgrade path from bash" actually meant until I saw the mechanics of how the process would go, and then it all clicked for me. I think a guided walkthrough of the "upgrade" process would be very valuable to help people understand what the goal is, and would be a good introduction to the project. https://github.com/oilshell/oil/wiki https://github.com/oilshell/oil/wiki

chubot 4y ago
Thanks for this feedback! I had almost forgotten about that page, which was linked in this post: http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2021/12/backlog-language.html http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2021/12/backlog-language.html I will take your point about walking through the upgrade process. Some things are still not stable so I've been hesitant to "recommend" it, but I think we can just make that clear. Most languages go through a big period of breakages before they get stable And to be clear OSH is very stable, while YSH isn't. (Next post will also have a list of breaking changes)