Re:Closh – Bash-like shell based on Clojure
by pen2l on Wednesday November 01, 2017 @03:19PM
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> Nice, I've been waiting for a good modern shell to replace ZSH.
I think xonsh is a good modern shell to replace bash/zsh/*sh. The only two issues are: 1) it has the stupidest name ever with an even more stupid pronunciation, 2) it's great, it's going toward a great direction, but it fails in one of your key areas for what makes a good shell: speed, it's very slow.
But regarding speed, please tell me how you find most shells to be too slow? Most of the time you're in shell you're not even doing shell stuff, you are rather using tools like ls and find and grep, etc. For the almost 2 decades I've been using bash, it never felt "slow" to me. xonsh feels slow, but at least the python-esque of it makes it a pleasure to use (except where you hit areas where it doesn't work well... I hope that improves over time though)
I think xonsh is a good modern shell to replace bash/zsh/*sh. The only two issues are: 1) it has the stupidest name ever with an even more stupid pronunciation, 2) it's great, it's going toward a great direction, but it fails in one of your key areas for what makes a good shell: speed, it's very slow.
But regarding speed, please tell me how you find most shells to be too slow? Most of the time you're in shell you're not even doing shell stuff, you are rather using tools like ls and find and grep, etc. For the almost 2 decades I've been using bash, it never felt "slow" to me. xonsh feels slow, but at least the python-esque of it makes it a pleasure to use (except where you hit areas where it doesn't work well... I hope that improves over time though)