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A modern, robust glue language (by stuartpb)

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Next Generation Shell (NGS) (by ngs-lang)

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lash		ngs
	Project
1	Mentions	94
2	Stars	1,367
-	Growth	2.8%
10.0	Activity	3.0
over 7 years ago	Latest Commit	14 days ago
	Language	C
-	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

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lash

Posts with mentions or reviews of lash. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-04-25.

Guide: Hush Shell-Scripting Language
23 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Apr 2022

This looks excellent - I outlined wanting something like a cross between Lua and Bash back in 2016, and at first glance, it would seem that this project by and large fits the bill: https://github.com/stuartpb/lash

ngs

Posts with mentions or reviews of ngs. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-12.

Next Generation Shell – a modern programming language for DevOps
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Mar 2024
Ask HN: Show me your half baked project
163 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Oct 2023

Next Generation Shell. As a shell, it's a programming language and a UI. Half baked: programming language - pretty much done, we use it at work; UI - just starting to work on.
Ananlysis of what's wrong with current shells' UIs and how to fix it - https://blog.ngs-lang.org/2023/09/30/ui-in-ngs/
Project - https://github.com/ngs-lang/ngs
Any help would be appreciated of course :)
AWS while being great at the underlying services, had by far the worst user experience ever existed on a platform at that scale
1 project | /r/aws | 2 Jun 2023

The plan for UI is at https://github.com/ngs-lang/ngs/wiki/UI-Design
NGS v0.2.16 is out
1 project | /r/NextGenerationShell | 18 May 2023
How NGS started? – Next Generation Shell
1 project | /r/commandline | 30 Apr 2023

The site is at https://ngs-lang.org/
Next Generation Shell
1 project | /r/showMyProject | 28 Mar 2023

Project: https://github.com/ngs-lang/ngs
I'm trying to switch from Python to Lua so I can get into game development... where do I start?
4 projects | /r/lua | 21 Mar 2023

There are number of new ones coming out ...and I'm curious of https://github.com/ngs-lang/ngs. As a language nerd, have you seen that?
Monthly 'Shameless Self Promotion' thread - 2023/01
14 projects | /r/devops | 1 Jan 2023
Telegraph and the Unix Shell
8 projects | /r/commandline | 31 Dec 2022

Thanks, took a note - https://github.com/ngs-lang/ngs/issues/621
Building a simple shell in C – Part 3
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Nov 2022

What are some alternatives?

When comparing lash and ngs you can also consider the following projects:

busybox - BusyBox mirror

nushell - A new type of shell

hush - hush (a Bourne-style shell) for the GNO multitasking environment on the Apple IIgs

oil - Oils is our upgrade path from bash to a better language and runtime. It's also for Python and JavaScript users who avoid shell!

hush - Hush is a unix shell based on the Lua programming language

fx - Terminal JSON viewer & processor

stshell

ohmyzsh - 🙃 A delightful community-driven (with 2,300+ contributors) framework for managing your zsh configuration. Includes 300+ optional plugins (rails, git, macOS, hub, docker, homebrew, node, php, python, etc), 140+ themes to spice up your morning, and an auto-update tool so that makes it easy to keep up with the latest updates from the community.

busybox - The Swiss Army Knife of Embedded Linux - private tree

ShellCheck - ShellCheck, a static analysis tool for shell scripts

barebox - The barebox bootloader - Mirror of ssh://[email protected]/barebox

bashly - Bash command line framework and CLI generator