MAmaydemir·Apr 29, 2022Submission
Hush – Unix shell based on the Lua programming language
2 points · Open discussionhush-shell
hush
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Hush is a unix shell based on the Lua programming language
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Hush is a unix shell based on the Lua programming language
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| Apr 26, 15:00 | 2022-04-26 15:00:00 UTC | 2022-04-26 18:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Apr 26, 18:00 | 2022-04-26 18:00:00 UTC | 2022-04-26 21:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 26, 21:00 | 2022-04-26 21:00:00 UTC | 2022-04-27 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 27, 00:00 | 2022-04-27 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-04-27 03:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 27, 03:00 | 2022-04-27 03:00:00 UTC | 2022-04-27 06:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 27, 06:00 | 2022-04-27 06:00:00 UTC | 2022-04-27 09:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 27, 09:00 | 2022-04-27 09:00:00 UTC | 2022-04-27 12:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 27, 12:00 | 2022-04-27 12:00:00 UTC | 2022-04-27 15:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 27, 15:00 | 2022-04-27 15:00:00 UTC | 2022-04-27 18:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 27, 18:00 | 2022-04-27 18:00:00 UTC | 2022-04-27 21:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 27, 21:00 | 2022-04-27 21:00:00 UTC | 2022-04-28 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 28, 00:00 | 2022-04-28 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-04-28 03:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Apr 28, 03:00 | 2022-04-28 03:00:00 UTC | 2022-04-28 06:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 28, 06:00 | 2022-04-28 06:00:00 UTC | 2022-04-28 09:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 28, 09:00 | 2022-04-28 09:00:00 UTC | 2022-04-28 12:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 28, 12:00 | 2022-04-28 12:00:00 UTC | 2022-04-28 15:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 28, 15:00 | 2022-04-28 15:00:00 UTC | 2022-04-28 18:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 28, 18:00 | 2022-04-28 18:00:00 UTC | 2022-04-28 21:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 28, 21:00 | 2022-04-28 21:00:00 UTC | 2022-04-29 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 29, 00:00 | 2022-04-29 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-04-29 03:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 29, 03:00 | 2022-04-29 03:00:00 UTC | 2022-04-29 06:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 29, 06:00 | 2022-04-29 06:00:00 UTC | 2022-04-29 09:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 29, 09:00 | 2022-04-29 09:00:00 UTC | 2022-04-29 12:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 29, 12:00 | 2022-04-29 12:00:00 UTC | 2022-04-29 15:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 29, 15:00 | 2022-04-29 15:00:00 UTC | 2022-04-29 18:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
3 sourcesShow HN: Hush, a modern shell scripting language
Hush is a new shell scripting language that aims to enable developers to write robust shell scripts. It provides support for complex data structures and common programming paradigms, without giving up on ergonomic shell capabilities.
Official guide: https://hush-shell.github.io/
Repository: https://github.com/hush-shell/hush
3 points · Open discussionWhile being extremely small is a worthy goal, I suppose the aim of Hush is to make writing larger shell scripts easier and less error-prone. It's more for the niche of Perl of old than of minimal shells like ash.
For a very limited device, a very limited shell like that in Busybox is sufficient, because it likely does not need large shell scripts, or a lot of interactive work.
Looking at [1], current Hush is under 700k, which is still way smaller than Python or Perl, with much of its expressiveness.
[1]: https://github.com/hush-shell/hush/releases
In Hush, a modern shell scripting language