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Anyone have recs for good Android equivalents?

I hear you, real Python has its benefits :) The way I see it, these are different approaches to solving similar (but still quite different) problems. In the case of rad, it's just a language, it's not trying to replace your shell, but the fact that it's only Python-like might indeed deter some people. But - it also opens up some unique syntax that can be tailored really well to CLI scripts. For example, the syntax for args [1] or json "rad blocks" [2], as I've called them.

[1] https://amterp.github.io/rad/guide/args/#arg-declarations

[2] https://amterp.github.io/rad/guide/rad-blocks/#basic-example

Don't think I'm understanding what you mean - composability of what exactly? It's a very Python-like language, so if-blocks behave like they do in Python/C, etc. Suppressing one's output: are you referring to invoking shell commands? Each shell invocation (at the moment) happens in its own session, independent of others, so variable assignments really only matter if you're basically embedding a shell script in RSL as e.g. a multiline string, and then invoking it. But I might be misunderstanding what you mean!

Might be interesting to folks in this thread - I'm working on a CLI tool/language which aims to let people write better scripts, more easily. It integrates well with Bash if it's needed, but lets you to avoid writing whole scripts in Bash and particularly some of the more painful aspects like arg parsing.

This page gives a bit of a preview, plus there are some links at the bottom to additional features. Still under development tho!

https://amterp.github.io/rad/guide/getting-started/

Homerow looks very cool. Is it actively being supported? Looks like it still uses App Center despite that being sunset, plus the change log shows the last update in June 2024, and before that in April 2023

People have Mac mini server racks? What for?

This is very very cool! I'm stoked about the idea but 18 AUD/month is a lot, subscriptions add up. I'm more willing to pay something below 10 AUD, plus a longer trial.

I understand if that cost range is just not feasible, though.

In any case, best of luck with this!

I don't hate the idea of AI generated podcasts (quite the opposite), but I can't shake that I can't trust what they're saying. High quality podcasts have fact checking and a reputation to uphold. On this, they just slap a disclaimer on that it might contain inaccuracies.

Will give it a listen tho!

It's an interesting phenomenon. ChatGPT and other LLMs have really opened up previously "archaic" tooling like Make and Bash. I've "written" more Bash in the last year than my entire career previously, because LLMs are such good copilots for that.

What does cs command do?

Had the exact same thought seeing this. Too many of these websites are missing a simple tldr of the thing actually is. Great, it's fast, but fast at what??

> Before I joined Replit, I had never written a line of code.

> I [had] tried to learn to code to earn some money to support my training. At Boston Consulting Group, I attempted to learn Python to automate some basic data manipulation and scraping tasks we did.

Seems contradictory.