Show HN: Lambda 0.2 – a func language better than TypeScrip, jq and jQuery

Re:Show HN: Lambda 0.2 – a func language better than TypeScr... by ifh-hn on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @10:52AM (#47518124)

I know this isn't quite the same thing but how does this compare to nushell, which is my current goto for data processing and cli related stuff. It took provides a standard language and processes the various data formats it can read into tanks and records.

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Re:Show HN: Lambda 0.2 – a func language better than TypeScr... by perpetua on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @11:28AM (#47518701)

Thanks for bringing up Nushell. I don't have working experience with Nushell. Just by looking at the documentation, I think the obvious differences are: 1. Nushell is a simple shell script. Lambda is a full functional language. Nushell does not have class support. 2. Nushell does not have built-in markup data support. 3. Nushell does not have rich type, pattern matching and schema support. 4. Nushell is CLI. Lambda supports both CLI and GUI.

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Re:Show HN: Lambda 0.2 – a func language better than TypeScr... by ifh-hn on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @01:18PM (#47520330)

Nushell is a lot more than a simple shell script, it's a full programming language. Certainly no markup support builtin though.

Unless I'm misunderstanding nushell has a type system and is strongly/gradually typed. And there is pattern matching too, though unsure what you mean by schema support?

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Re:Show HN: Lambda 0.2 – a func language better than TypeScr... by perpetua on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @09:30PM (#47525682)

thanks for pointing out. I did not notice that nushell has pattern matching. for schema support, I mean something like RelaxNG, or XML Schema.

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Re:Show HN: Lambda 0.2 – a func language better than TypeScr... by perpetua on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @09:30PM (#47525685)

I agree that Nushell is close to a full programming language.

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Re:Show HN: Lambda 0.2 – a func language better than TypeScr... by perpetua on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @09:34PM (#47525707)

Lambda has first-class type support. Type can be constructed like data at runtime under Lambda, which is more powerful than most programming languages.

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