[chubot]

If you've written programs you shouldn't have in bash, then you're very much the target user for Oil :) As stated on the home page, it's our upgrade path from bash to a better language and runtime.

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).

[akavel]

A link to some related fun & craziness, for people not too familiar with Oil:

https://github.com/oilshell/oil/wiki/The-Biggest-Shell-Progr...