rebol | nushell | |
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8 | 214 | |
855 | 30,246 | |
0.2% | 2.3% | |
0.0 | 9.9 | |
8 days ago | 5 days ago | |
C | Rust | |
Apache License 2.0 | MIT License |
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
rebol
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A 2024 Plea for Lean Software
Rebol [ http://www.rebol.com ] were still king.
It was simple to use, small executables, expressive, but no longer maintained :(
- Ask HN: What are some unpopular technologies you wish people knew more about?
- Is there any high level programming language whose executable generated on one platform(OS) and runs on other platforms as well, if the machine/architecture is literally same.
- Lisp – Mecrisp Stellaris Unofficial 1.0 documentation
- The German School of Lisp (2011)
- Rebol
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What is a lesser known programming language that you think could be better than Python for non-programmers doing general scripting?
In theory, something like Rebol is much better, but you have to accept that a big bonus in favor of python is it’s popularity, so much easier to find answers if you are stuck, etc
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Rad Basic 100% compatible with your Visual Basic 6 projects
*Idly checks out where it's at*
:(
Last modified March 2014: https://github.com/rebol/rebol
And that's still just REBOL/Core, not REBOL/View.
nushell
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Exploring Nushell, a Rust-powered, cross-platform shell
The first method is through downloading the pre-built binaries. With this method, you don't need to install anything other than Nushell's dependencies. Once you've downloaded the binaries, add them to your system's environment path to run it directly in your terminal.
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PowerShell: The object-oriented shell you didn't know you needed
I rather nushell for this purpose, it's more fun to write and easier to read.
https://www.nushell.sh/
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NuShell - Ceci n'est pas une |
These are just three small examples of what this shell written in Rust allows. The features are many and many more, but I'll leave it up to you to discover and enjoy them; I'm currently playing around with it and it's giving me a lot of satisfaction and immediacy, now it has a fixed place among the tools I use when working! The project is Open Source, so if you want to contribute, I invite you, as always, to do so, I leave you the link to the repo here!
- Xonsh: Python-powered, cross-platform, Unix-gazing shell
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Fish shell 3.7.0: last release branch before the full Rust rewrite
Any thoughts on fish as compared to nushell [0]? It's similar to PowerShell in its philosophy and is also written in Rust.
[0] https://github.com/nushell/nushell
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jc: Converts the output of popular command-line tools to JSON
> In PowerShell, structured output is the default and it seems to work very well.
PowerShell goes a step beyond JSON, by supporting actual mutable objects. So instead of just passing through structured data, you effectively pass around opaque objects that allow you to go back to earlier pipeline stages, and invoke methods, if I understand correctly: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsof....
I'm rather fond of wrappers like jc and libxo, and experimental shells like https://www.nushell.sh/. These still focus on passing data, not objects with executable methods. On some level, I find this comfortable: Structured data still feels pretty Unix-like, if that makes sense? If I want actual objects, then it's probably time to fire up Python or Ruby.
Knowing when to switch from a shell script to a full-fledged programming language is important, even if your shell is basically awesome and has good programming features.
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Ripgrep is faster than {grep, ag, Git grep, ucg, pt, sift}
Maybe if the "popular" shells, but http://www.nushell.sh/ is looking better and better
- "<ESC>[31M"? ANSI Terminal security in 2023 and finding 10 CVEs
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jq 1.7 Released
Yeah agreed, especially now that PowerShell is available cross-platform.
Nushell[1] also seems like a promising alternative, but I haven’t had a chance to play with it yet.
[1]: https://www.nushell.sh/
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The Case for Nushell
I also discovered an existing discussion[1] related to this topic which includes a link[2] to a "helper to call nushell nuon/json/yaml commands from bash/fish/zsh" and a comment[3] that the current nushell dev focus is "on getting the experience inside nushell right and [we] probably won't be able to dedicate design time to get the interface of native Nu commands with an outside POSIX shell right and stable.".
[0] https://gitlab.com/RancidBacon/notes_public/-/blob/main/note...
[1] "Expose some commands to external world #6554": https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues/6554
[2] https://github.com/cruel-intentions/devshell-files/blob/mast...
[3] https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues/6554#issuecomment-...
What are some alternatives?
potion - _why the lucky stiff's little language (the official repo... until _why returns)
fish-shell - The user-friendly command line shell.
Dolphin - Dolphin Smalltalk Core Image
elvish - Powerful scripting language & Versatile interactive shell
racket - The Racket repository
starship - ☄🌌️ The minimal, blazing-fast, and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell!
polyworks - Map editor for the game OpenSoldat
PowerShell - PowerShell for every system!
ren-c - Library for embedding a Rebol interpreter into C codebases
alacritty - A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator.
cosmopolitan - build-once run-anywhere c library
xonsh - :shell: Python-powered, cross-platform, Unix-gazing shell.