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by fmakunbound
2109 days ago
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Thanks for the Oil shell suggestion. I will definitely check it out this evening. I don't care for POSIX compatibility. I'm a long time Bash user, I've written programs I probably should not have in Bash, and I'm familiar with most of the pitfalls described in a recent HN post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24401085 however, after reading through them I thought this is some serious bullshit one must contend with and went looking or alternate shells. Elvish being one of them. |
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So I would be interested if those programs run under Oil. Many do, and if they don't, the fix is usually small. Other programs I've run include Lisp and brainfuck interpreters in bash. And thousands of lines of bash completion scripts.
If the programs run, you can opt into strictness checks to improve them / find bugs. And if you want to drop bash compatibility, you can use the new Oil language. (still in progress, but you can try it right now)
The goal of Oil is very much to REMOVE all the pitfalls in that thread! It's done with option groups shopt -s oil:basic or shopt -s oil:all. Feel free to contact me on Github or Zulip about it. If you have bash programs, that makes it more interesting. I'm looking for feedback to help shape the Oil language :)
Based on my experience I think only 10% of bash users write a program that's longer than 5 lines, or use any bash features. Most people just use what their distro provides (which is what I did for years as well).