Why Create a New Unix Shell?

Re:Why Create a New Unix Shell? by chubot on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @05:31PM (#16278141)

Please read the FAQ:

http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2018/01/28.html#toc_7

I didn't write those scripts, and you rely on them, whether you know it or not.

Do you use Unix? Do you use the cloud? You rely on them. See:

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/7lsajn/oil_shell_03_...

Also, shell has functions.

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Re:Why Create a New Unix Shell? by kakarot on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @06:03PM (#16278368)

I see. My apologies for being so critical. I agree that POSIX is incomplete and out of date.

However I do think it is a disaster that people can't break up their shell code into more modular components, and there is no excuse for it.

And I especially do not wish to discourage you from trying to reinvent shell, because someone has to do it, but at minimum I don't see myself moving away from my shell for the better part of a decade. Hopefully at that point Oil's community has matured to the point where I feel comfortable trusting it to be stable and free of any critical privilege escalation bugs.

Good luck!

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