Re:Oils 0.17.0 – YSH Is Becoming Real
by subjectsigma on Tuesday August 15, 2023 @09:41PM
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I can't contribute directly to open source because of my employer. But the pages you linked are very interesting. I may be interested in doing beta testing or something, so I'll join Zulip and say hi. Thanks!
https://lobste.rs/s/pcuppu/what_helps_people_get_comfortable...
Basically I want to be able to use all the power of Unix without remembering it all -- shell is a great tool for that.
Someone made a LSP plugin for Oils awhile back, and I expect if enough people use it, those tools will arise. They will be MUCH easier to produce for Oils than shell, because we have a principled code representation. (Some tools will be inside the project, and some outside, as usual)
On the UI side, there are also people exploring shell GUIs via the "headless shell" -- something no other shell has -- but we can use more people to help.
screenshots: https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2023/06/release-0.16.0.html#he...
i.e. Join #shell-gui on Zulip; don't assume it will get done without your input or effort ... as mentioned in this blog post, the biggest risk is that we don't have enough people helping!