Unix Shell Programming: The Next 50 Years

• oil

  235 2,734 9.9 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!

  

(author here) Thanks for nicely summarizing the project!

I didn't know about fftw, but another nice analogy is TeX! TeX is actually written in WEB / a subset of Pascal (H-Pascal I think), and then translated to C. This came up a few times on Hacker News and I got some interesting info.

I wrote yesterday in this comment that I want to hire a "compiler engineer" to help with the C++ translation:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29605304

It is already half done, passing ~1100 of 1950 spec tests, so I believe it's very feasible. But it needs someone who can concentrate on it full time.

I might as well post the draft of the "job listing" to get people thinking about this. I think the challenge is finding the right person rather than funding it (I'm applying for funding now)

https://github.com/oilshell/oil/wiki/Compiler-Engineer-Job

One sentence description: write an ~10K line translator for statically typed Python, and a ~5K line C++ runtime, and get a free shell out of it! (over 5 years of painstaking work on the semantics!)

The input is ~36K lines of Python the output is ~100K lines of C++. This is a very doable project for an experienced compiler engineer. :)

• murex

  55 1,376 9.6 Go

  A smarter shell and scripting environment with advanced features designed for usability, safety and productivity (eg smarter DevOps tooling)

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com featured

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• elvish

  40 5,343 9.5 Go

  Powerful scripting language & Versatile interactive shell

  

• ngs

  94 1,367 3.0 C

  Next Generation Shell (NGS)

  

• nushell

  214 30,081 9.9 Rust

  A new type of shell

  

I'm surprised to see no mention of nushell [0] I've tried it a while ago and seemed really promising

[0] https://www.nushell.sh/

• SaaSHub

  www.saashub.com featured

  SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

  

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