The Software Crisis

• oils

  245 2,809 8.7 Python

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

  

  This looks pretty cool!

  I agree -- a big reason I like Unix, and find it productive, is that it's "shallow and composable".

  But GUIs have long been a weakness. I guess because there are many "global" concerns -- whether a UI is nice isn't a "modular" property.

  Personally I would more of a UI, but still retain automation

  That is, the property of shell where I can just saved what I typed in a file, and then run it later

  And modify it and run it again

  Or I can copy and paste a command, send it to my friend in an e-mail, etc.

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  As context, I've been working on a from-scratch shell for many years, and it has a "headless mode" meant for GUIs. There are real demos that other people have written, but nobody's working on it at the moment.

  Screenshots:

  https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2023/12/screencasts.html#headl...

  https://www.oilshell.org/blog/tags.html?tag=headless#headles...

  More links here - https://github.com/oilshell/oil/wiki/Interactive-Shell

  If you find the need for a compatible shell that's divorced from the terminal, or a NEW shell that is, feel free to let me know (by e-mail or https://oilshell.zulipchat.com )

  Basically we need to people to test out the headless protocol and tell us how it can be improved. I think we should make a shell GUI that HAS a terminal, but IS NOT a terminal -- which looks like it has some relation to what you're building

  Right now we're working mostly on the new YSH language, but I'd like to revive the GUI work too ... I'm not an experienced UI programmer, so it would be nice to have some different viewpoints :)

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• guish

  9 110 9.5 TypeScript

  A GUI for constructing and executing Unix pipelines

  Shallow and composable is something we all experience when using UNIX tooling.

  GUIs are where this all falls apart as they are literal islands that don’t communicate with each other in a composable manner.

  I’ve been experimenting with some GUI-meets-shell-pipeline ideas with a tool I’ve been working on call guish.

  https://github.com/williamcotton/guish

  I’m curious to know if anyone knows of any similar tools or approaches to composable GUIs!

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