[canadaduane]

Oil is a promising attempt to make a backwards-compatible but progressively better and more sane unix shell. I look forward to trying it out!

[RobertRoberts]

I use unix (linux) every day, what does Oil fix that is wrong with bash/shell? (I am not a power user per se, so genuinely curious what I am missing out on)

[yorwba]

"Why Create a New Unix Shell?": http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2018/01/28.html

If you want just one example, automatic completion in bash uses a bash parser written in bash, incompatible with the bash interpreter's own parser. OSH uses the same parser for both the interpreter and the completion engine. https://github.com/oilshell/oil/issues/208#issuecomment-4496...

[iimblack]

Here's a page from the developer explaining this: http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2018/01/28.html