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hell

Haskell-based shell scripting language

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What it is

Haskell-based shell scripting language

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

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Also in these discussions

Mentioned in the same Hacker News threads. That is not proof they are substitutes.

This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 1:49:46 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by year6 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2013-11-22 10:13:43 UTC to 2025-01-14 09:44:52 UTC.

01232013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20132014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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internet_points·Jan 14, 2025
Huh, so it's not giving you full Haskell, but restricted to an API of under 300 functions: https://chrisdone.github.io/hell/api/ Interesting. I guess that's what made this bit possible: It was easy at the start of this project in early 2024 to say I like reading the code, because I was the only user. Now, after reading the code of a few colleagues, I still find it very easy to read the code. ie. you don't have to start hoogling library functions to read a new script (while having more sane behaviour than bash). My main issue with Yet Another Scripting Language is that you have to install it to new systems and you'll find some dependency issue with idunno glibc being the wrong version or arm vs intel etc. (Case in point: https://github.com/chrisdone/hell/releases only has hell-linux-x86-64bit ) I wonder, could you use
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this with https://github.com/augustss/MicroHs ? They seem like a good combination, MicroHs being extremely portable, Hell having a restricted API and presumably quite stable dependencies. ----- (btw footnote 3 is footnote 1 again)
In Hell (Haskell Shell): Year in Review
cies·Jan 30, 2015
Thanks Gabriel Gonzalez! There is a comment on the blog post (by Chris Done) asking how it deals with piping. I really wonder about that too. Some related projects: - Joey Hess recently released a nice Haskell-to-sh compiler. I like this approach as the resulting sh scripts are runnable on pretty much every *nix. https://joeyh.name/blog/entry/shell_monad/ - Chris Done also released a lib to do shell stuff from Haskell, which build on the conduit library http://chrisdone.com/posts/shell-conduit - Chris also wrote a shell in Haskell https://github.com/chrisdone/hell - Then there is Shelly by Greg Weber https://github.com/yesodweb/Shelly.hs There are probably more...
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