Cicada – Unix shell written in Rust

Re:Cicada – Unix shell written in Rust by ori_b on Saturday July 01, 2017 @03:59AM (#14675956)

The Unix shell operates on binary streams, not on text.

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Re:Cicada – Unix shell written in Rust by panic on Saturday July 01, 2017 @05:26AM (#14676234)

Ah, I thought this was about structured text (like JSON) vs. plain text -- binary content is a bigger issue!

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Re:Cicada – Unix shell written in Rust by ori_b on Saturday July 01, 2017 @07:58AM (#14676709)

If you want to replace the shell with a structured one, the change needs to be pervasive, down to replacing the typical file formats, imo.

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