Re:The Front-End Developer's Guide to the Terminal
by jjav on Saturday April 23, 2022 @02:04AM
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The article is painful to read. For one thing, the author comingles the GUI terminal app with the shell, which are distinct things.
A GUI terminal doesn't need to run a shell, even if often it does.
e.g. "xterm -e emacs", now the GUI terminal is running emacs, not any shell.
(Of course arguably emacs is a shell and a universe onto itself but different topic.)
And a shell is called a "shell", not a "shell language". Yes a shell can be used as a scripting language, but when used interactively it is called a shell.
Re:The Front-End Developer's Guide to the Terminal
by tsp on Saturday April 23, 2022 @03:50AM
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You could forward all your constructive points to the author and ask for a correction. This guide will be read by many front-end developers and designers.
A GUI terminal doesn't need to run a shell, even if often it does.
e.g. "xterm -e emacs", now the GUI terminal is running emacs, not any shell.
(Of course arguably emacs is a shell and a universe onto itself but different topic.)
And a shell is called a "shell", not a "shell language". Yes a shell can be used as a scripting language, but when used interactively it is called a shell.