ngs VS nsd

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 :)

The plan for UI is at https://github.com/ngs-lang/ngs/wiki/UI-Design

The site is at https://ngs-lang.org/

Project: https://github.com/ngs-lang/ngs

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?

Thanks, took a note - https://github.com/ngs-lang/ngs/issues/621

Repository of scripts written in the language - https://github.com/ngs-lang/nsd

> there isn't really an entry point in murex scripts

I have a nice trick in NGS for that. Under the idea that "small scripts should not suffer", script is running top to bottom without "entry point". However, if the script has defined main() function, it is invoked (with command line arguments passed).

Example - https://github.com/ngs-lang/nsd/blob/afe0cad5e506ec4ee2fa924...

> `args` still contains more boilerplate code than I'm happy with

Is there anything preventing you to have exactly the same functionality but with syntactic sugar that it looks like parameters declaration? (Just to be clear, keeping all the ARGV machinery).

Something like (assuming local variables are supported; if not, it could still be $args[Flags] etc):

  function hippo(name:str, hungry:bool) {

NGS Scripts Dumpster - collection of small scripts in NGS

Doing DevOps today? 99% either abuse bash or abuse a general purpose programming language.

bash does not meet any modern expectations from a programming language: syntax, error handling, data structures

General purpose languages such as Python, Ruby, etc are not domain specific enough to have the desired facilities.

Here is small example of straightforward solution to a small problem: list all CloudFormation stacks that are managed by the given CodePipeline.

https://github.com/ngs-lang/nsd/blob/02d66abb844b7dd6077b9976e3a03659cf4b3660/aws/codepipeline/pipeline-stacks.ngs

The script is at https://github.com/ngs-lang/nsd/blob/master/aws/cloudformation/delete-stack.ngs