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A Common Lisp jq replacement
Thanks!
I think it's about alignment of the project and how you think.
Anyhow, I'm working on the user interface of Next Generation Shell now and I would like to encourage you to revisit the project once that is done.
Plan:
https://github.com/ngs-lang/ngs/wiki/UI-Design
https://github.com/ngs-lang/ngs/wiki/UI-Chain-Design
Tldr: interactive objects on the screen, each interaction results "interaction record" (structured data about what happened), semantic understanding of what's happening, record/replay facility.
- Advanced Shell Scripting with Bash (2006) [pdf]
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NGS – Next Generation Shell
Hi. Author here.
The biggest difference between NGS and other shells is the UI. It's work in progress. Ideas are at https://github.com/ngs-lang/ngs/wiki/UI-Design
Another big difference is that NGS is a language designed ground up for DevOps-y tasks. The result, in my subjective opinion, is clear and concise scripting. That's due to better fit between the language and problems being solved.
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Ask HN: What would you spend your time working on if you didn't need money?
I would like to make my DevOps colleagues more productive and less frustrated. I'm actually already doing it, it's just way slower when you can't do it as a full time job.
I started working on Next Generation Shell in 2013. I have the programming language in quite a good shape and we use it at work.
I'm working on the UI now. The main idea of the UI is to get rid of telegraph-style communication paradigm of sending text and receiving text. We can actually use the whole screen now. We have text editing using full screen since 1976 (vi) but classical shells are ignoring this capability till this day. It's time to stop treating outputs of programs as if they are still printed on paper, allowing zero interactivity.
https://github.com/ngs-lang/ngs/wiki/UI-Design
https://github.com/ngs-lang/ngs/wiki/UI-Chain-Design
Have a nice day!
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State of the Terminal
- https://ngs-lang.org/
> Applications should neither be concerned with what color codes the output device can render, nor should the terminal itself have to support hundreds of emulation targets.
If you have colour codes (et al) sent out-of-band then you need a new kind of terminal emulator which the application then also needs to support. So you do effectively create yet another standard.
Whereas the status quo, as much as it sucks, is largely just vt100 with a few extra luxuries, some of which are as old as xterm. We aren't really talking about having to deal with hundreds of emulation targets, nor even more than one, in most cases.
Where things get a little more challenging is if you want stuff like squiggly underlines or inlined images. There is the beginnings of some de facto standardisation there but it's still a long way from being standardised.
- Next Generation Shell – a modern programming language for DevOps
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Ask HN: Show me your half baked project
Next Generation Shell. As a shell, it's a programming language and a UI. Half baked: programming language - pretty much done, we use it at work; UI - just starting to work on.
Ananlysis of what's wrong with current shells' UIs and how to fix it - https://blog.ngs-lang.org/2023/09/30/ui-in-ngs/
Project - https://github.com/ngs-lang/ngs
Any help would be appreciated of course :)
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AWS while being great at the underlying services, had by far the worst user experience ever existed on a platform at that scale
The plan for UI is at https://github.com/ngs-lang/ngs/wiki/UI-Design
- NGS v0.2.16 is out
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How NGS started? – Next Generation Shell
The site is at https://ngs-lang.org/
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