Oh yes feel free to join https://oilshell.zulipchat.com/ https://oilshell.zulipchat.com/ -- there is a whole #shell-gui channel . We are mainly developing OSH

Oh yes feel free to join https://oilshell.zulipchat.com/ https://oilshell.zulipchat.com/ -- there is a whole #shell-gui channel . We are mainly developing OSH and YSH now, but it would be nice to work on the interactive shell too The key idea is that OSH and YSH can run "headless" with the "FANOS" protocol (file descriptors and netstrings over unix domain socket), which has a tiny implementations in C and Python The reason we use FD passing with Unix sockets is so that anything that uses terminal still works: ls --color pip install cargo build All these programs will output ANSI color if `isatty(stdout)` is true (roughly speaking). Most people didn't quite get that -- they thought we should use "nREPL" or something -- but my opinion is that you really need a specific protocol to communicate with a shell, because a shell spawns other programs you still want to work. --- Here is a pure Python 3 implementation of the recv() side of FANOS in only ~100 lines https://github.com/oilshell/oil/blob/master/client/py_fanos.py https://github.com/oilshell/oil/blob/master/client/py_fanos.... It uses the recvmsg() binding . I'm pretty sure node.js has that too? i.e. it has Unix domain socket support --- Anyway, thanks for taking a look - we're interested in feedback!