[xelxebar]

I know you're joking, but I would really like to have the Haskell type system in my shell with suitably-typed versions of the standard utilities: sed, awk, grep, etc.

I tried asking #haskell on freenode about "using ghci as a shell" and everybody thought it was a horrible idea. Oh well :(

[kreetx]

If what most people thought were always the way taken we wouldn't have any of the great things we have today. In other words: try using it as a shell anyway, write the needed pieces of infrastructure, and share the results! :)

(There are people who've done work in this direction, but none of them haven't broken out to any significant amount of followers.)

[xelxebar]

Thanks for the encouragement! For those at all interested, some of the existing tools/libs in this arena are

    * shelly [1],
    * turtle [2], and
    * hell [3].

I currently don't have much Haskell experience, but I do keep a ghci session open, hoping that the frustrations of using it as a shell push me to both learn and create.

[1] https://hackage.haskell.org/package/shelly

[2] https://hackage.haskell.org/package/turtle

[3] https://hackage.haskell.org/package/hell