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Re:It's time to get the Posix elephant off our necks by deafpolygon on Thursday February 23, 2023 @08:38AM (#34910401)
> Can we actually improve the POSIX shell?

PowerShell?

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Re:It's time to get the Posix elephant off our necks by chasil on Thursday February 23, 2023 @09:56AM (#34911364)
No, that won't work.

  $ ll /bin/dash
  -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 85368 Jan  5 09:52 /bin/dash
If you can make Powershell in a binary that size, then you have a valid point.
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Re:It's time to get the Posix elephant off our necks by shubhamkrm on Thursday February 23, 2023 @12:47PM (#34913867)
But why? Storage is much cheaper today than it was in the 80s. While I myself don’t like huge Electron apps, trying to save every byte of storage is simply not worth it.
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Re:It's time to get the Posix elephant off our necks by chasil on Thursday February 23, 2023 @05:01PM (#34917196)
Embedded applications on smaller systems are why.

The POSIX shell is common, from the largest supercomputer down to the smallest ARM.

I don't think that there will be any new developments covering that full scope.

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Re:It's time to get the Posix elephant off our necks by deafpolygon on Friday February 24, 2023 @01:22AM (#34921493)
Embedded systems don't exclude PowerShell from being a replacement for POSIX shells. Maybe embedded systems should not strive to be POSIX.
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Re:It's time to get the Posix elephant off our necks by pjmlp on Friday February 24, 2023 @01:56AM (#34921696)
Many embedded systems hardly have any shell, and even when they do, it isn't bash (which isn't POSIX anyway), rather a tiny subset with the basic tooling for maintenance.
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