twiner VS fish-shell

You need to ensure that you have write access to the directory in which you clone a repository. I do have access, I could create directories and files, and I even ran an instance of Syncthing, synced a "folder" with another computer running Syncthing. It's just that git was having trouble. Following is what I see on the console: bash-5.1# git clone https://github.com/myTerminal/twiner.git Cloning into 'twiner'... remote: Enumerating objects: 450, done. error: unable to get random bytes for temporary file: No such file or directory error: unable to get random bytes for temporary file: No such file or directory fatal: Unable to create temporary file '/var/twiner/.git/objects/pack/tmp_pack_XXXXXX': No such file or directory remote: Counting objects: 100% (22/22), done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (18/18), done. fatal: fetch-pack: invalid index-pack output

Getting to know Linux better from my initial days with beginner-friendly distributions to stepping into the manual installation of Arch (pacstrap), Debian (debootstrap), and Void (xbps) has taught me a lot more of Bash than I would have expected from myself. I now also maintain my personalized setup scripts along with my dotfiles. Furthermore, I also created twiner as a re-usable tool (that tries to be a lot of things at the same time), which "sort of" helped me deepen my understanding of Bash a little bit more.

Now that we have a running Linux system, we can bring in my custom setup scripts and set up the rest of the system with a little help from twiner.

I never had a proper introduction to shell scripting before and as far as I remember, my first shell script was indeed the simple packages installation script for my Linux setup. Needless to say, I started improving my setup scripts and soon realized that most of the scripts that I was writing could be re-used. Around the same time, due to my failure of being able to run a regular Linux distribution on my Dell Precision T3600 desktop due to the incompatibility of the super-old hardware with the latest Xserver packages, I literally had to learn setting up a command-line Linux for graphical use. More configuration meant adding more code to my setup scripts, and all this extra code was a perfect candidate for my library of functions for Linux setup and this led me to create twiner.

Reminds of the note at the bottom of Fish's releases. It's there because the build system cannot determine the current version for some reason. Hopefully that will go away now that they have switched to a different language / build system. The custom tarball is used by Arch Linux at the very least.

https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/releases/tag/3.7.1

https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/7772#issueco...

https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/fi...

A recent practical example of the former: the fish shell re-wrote incrementally from C++ to Rust, and is almost finished https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/discussions/10123

An example of the latter: c2rust, which is a work in progress but is very impressive https://github.com/immunant/c2rust

It currently translates into unsafe Rust, but the strategy is to separate the "compile C to unsafe Rust" steps and the "compile unsafe Rust to safe Rust" steps. As I see it, as it makes the overall task simpler, allows for more user freedom, and makes the latter potentially useful even for non-transpiled code. https://immunant.com/blog/2023/03/lifting/

And this discussion from November has an update on the progress: https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/discussions/10123

We're using bash as our terminal shell for now (it is standard in many distros) but it is not the only one out there. If you want to test out zsh, fish or oh-my-zsh, you will see that there are a few differences and the features are usually the main differentiator. Try that, poke around.

They have a variety of reasons to move to rust, as outlined in their original rust discussion[1]. Mostly around finding other contributors, and adding an async/parallel mode they're comfortable with.

[1] https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/pull/9512