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If you're a shell hater, the answer isn't to write MORE shell, but to switch to something else, for the love of all things sane and normal.
by phendrenad2 2y ago
If you're a shell hater, the answer isn't to write MORE shell, but to switch to something else, for the love of all things sane and normal.
- lproven 2y agoThe trouble is that all the existing xNix GUI shells suck. They suck in widely varying degrees, from ones that could suck a bowling ball through an iron water pipe, like GNOME and KDE, to ones that could merely suck a golfball through a hosepipe, like Unity and Xfce, but they all suck. There have been GUI shells that didn't perceptibly suck at all, such as early versions of the Windows 9x shell, classic MacOS, and Acorn RISC OS, but they're all largely dead and gone now.
- phendrenad2 2y agoWell, I meant people should use a real programming language. Also, I'm not sure why "bash with a real programming language syntax" isn't a thing. Apparently last time this was tried was the "C Shell" which had c-like syntax? Why don't we have a javascript-like syntax for a shell yet?
- lproven 2y agoEr. I think we're at cross purposes. What do you mean by the word "shell"? I mean "the user interface of the OS" which implies nothing about whether it's text, graphics, both, spoken word, gestural, whatever.