Re:Anatomy of a shell
by chubot on Friday December 28, 2018 @09:01PM
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Yeah making Oil more efficient is an open problem. I've been going back and forth on the whole OVM thing (long story). I think that's the right idea, but it's not clear how long it will take.
But I think the efficiency problem is easier than the problem of running big hairy unmodified shell scripts, which I view as essential to replacing bash.
That is, it's easier to make something that works efficient, as opposed to thinking you have 60% of a shell and really having 20% of one :-/ That was the case for awhile, but since OSH can run many real programs, I'm pretty confident in its feature set.
But I think the efficiency problem is easier than the problem of running big hairy unmodified shell scripts, which I view as essential to replacing bash.
That is, it's easier to make something that works efficient, as opposed to thinking you have 60% of a shell and really having 20% of one :-/ That was the case for awhile, but since OSH can run many real programs, I'm pretty confident in its feature set.