oh VS dotfiles_skeleton

I think an extensible shell like oh shell would be something I would prefer. Though it should not need closures on heap to extend (which is ridolous slow on arithmetic) and generate the data types at compilation time.

> Is there a reason we aren’t using a shell with a proper programming language for scripting?

Mostly because the people who want to introduce a "programming language" into the shell don't prioritize being a shell.

Check out the "Oh" shell for contrast. This is what a programming language looks like when you force it to conform to being a shell first priority.

https://github.com/michaelmacinnis/oh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1m-WEZz46U

This is "Scheme-like" but has FEXPRs so things can be redefined and evaluation can be controlled.

I love chatting about Kernel :D Here's my most recent post: https://lobste.rs/s/d0hogq/problem_with_macros#c_nozcrm

Thanks for showing me Oh! It really has f-exprs?! I didn't immediately see it in https://github.com/michaelmacinnis/oh/blob/main/doc/manual.m...

You can also use my dotfiles skeleton to see, if you have different demands. https://github.com/matu3ba/dotfiles_skeleton

Personally it would have helped me to start outright with version tracking and documenting common workflows with dotfiles, for examples starting with my skeleton https://github.com/matu3ba/dotfiles_skeleton

Setup dotfiles to quickly restore broken configs. One simple options is https://github.com/matu3ba/dotfiles_skeleton

My position is that shells should be as simple as possible and any computations and tooling besides simple arithmetic be externalized: https://github.com/matu3ba/dotfiles_skeleton/blob/main/POSIXunsafe

I would recommend for you to start simple and incrementally improve or change plugins you dont like with dotfiles. My relative minimal dotfiles missing JavaScript lsp, debugger etc](https://github.com/matu3ba/dotfiles).

I dont believe there is "a best way", since requirements for dotfiles differ. For simple replications my [dotfile skeleton](https://github.com/matu3ba/dotfiles_skeleton) using fd with ignorefiles worked fine for me.

For easy managing your dotfiles on Linux (did not test Mac) you can usw my dotfiles skeleton.

Guess then you need to minimise the config to track down the issue. Do you use dotfiles? You could use my skeleton to easily branch and reset etc.

Create dotfiles or something different for versioning You can use my https://github.com/matu3ba/dotfiles_skeleton