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Re:Show HN: Janetsh – A new system shell by akhilcacharya on Monday May 13, 2019 @09:21AM (#19898955)
> while also supporting the things we love about sh.

This is great! Are there any other shells like this? I like the idea of something backwards compatible with bash.

Re:Show HN: Janetsh – A new system shell by 314 on Monday May 13, 2019 @09:31AM (#19899041)
Oilsh has focused more on backwards compatibility. This approach of adding a small functional language is interesting. The author seems to have done an elegant job with the syntax. Adding this to my list of things to download and play with.
Re:Show HN: Janetsh – A new system shell by rpwilcox on Monday May 13, 2019 @11:06AM (#19899993)
Rash, the Racket Shell, does something similar to this: https://docs.racket-lang.org/rash/index.html
Re:Show HN: Janetsh – A new system shell by Spivak on Monday May 13, 2019 @10:49AM (#19899778)
Es shell is similar but in a less lispy, more bash style.
Re:Show HN: Janetsh – A new system shell by sciurus on Monday May 13, 2019 @12:15PM (#19900770)
xonsh does the same thing for sh and python.

http://xonsh.org/