gsh
A POSIX shell for Windows. (by AdaCore)
crosh
Minimal CROss-platform SHell (WIP, code is not real yet) (by multiprocessio)
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gsh
Posts with mentions or reviews of gsh.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-09-10.
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A Better Shell
This has already been done in ADA. It was designed for better performance than the Cygwin shell.
https://archive.fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/ada_shell/
https://github.com/AdaCore/gsh
You could also use the busybox port of the Almquist shell, if you can refrain from most bashisms.
https://frippery.org/busybox/
crosh
Posts with mentions or reviews of crosh.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-09-10.
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A Better Shell
But this is a massive hack. So I'm starting work on a real language that supports a reasonable subset of Bash on Windows, macOS, and Linux and brings a reimplementation of the few key Linux userland commands (mv, cp, mkdir, rm plus new programs like append, prepend, replace, etc.) built into the interpreter.
A sketch of this more real version implemented in Go is here: https://github.com/multiprocessio/crosh. It doesn't build at all yet but if you're interested you can follow along.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing gsh and crosh you can also consider the following projects:
oursh - Your comrade through the perilous world of UNIX.
busybox-w32 - WIN32 native port of BusyBox.
homebrew-emacs-plus - Emacs Plus formulae for the Homebrew package manager
notty - A new kind of terminal
datastation - App to easily query, script, and visualize data from every database, file, and API.
ngs - Next Generation Shell (NGS)