NInixpulvis·Feb 11, 2022
a shell: http://github.com/nixpulvis/oursh/
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Your comrade through the perilous world of UNIX.
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I too have been off and on writing a Rust shell, though I want it to support `chsh` POSIX compatibility for my Arch setup. It's no where near complete though.…
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9 sourcesThere is also https://github.com/nixpulvis/oursh which wants to be POSIX compatible with its own extensions. Actually I would prefer if a new shell focuses on bash compatibility.
If features are integrated, then I would probably want to have something about error handling because it is difficult to get right in bash even with shellcheck¹ plus shellharden², and gets just worse when things run in parallel.
¹ https://www.shellcheck.net/
² https://github.com/anordal/shellharden
In Nsh: A fish/bash-like Posix shell in RustA lot of this has to do with the integration between the Terminal and the Shell. A project that came up recently that seems to take on a few of the issues is https://blog.warp.dev/how-warp-works. I've been meaning to write up a proper critique of this project at some point, but I keep getting side-tracked.
I also want a replacement for `fish`, however it's a pretty tall order to implement what I have in mind, and I got a bit stuck trying to find the right abstractions for background job management in Rust (there's a lot going on). But I genuinely believe a multi-language shell with POSIX support will finally allow us to move forward in the terminal environment. UI/UX issues like ctrl-c, window management, and everything else can be implemented as derivations from POSIX, or additions.
While somewhat tangential to the main thread of this p
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ost, I'll still leave my (incomplete) shell here for anyone who's interested. https://github.com/nixpulvis/oursh. The README has a decent description of features I want off the bat, and there's a bunch of design level issues in the tracker.
I'll never accept the death of the Terminal environment.
I too have been off and on writing a Rust shell, though I want it to support `chsh` POSIX compatibility for my Arch setup. It's no where near complete though.
https://github.com/nixpulvis/oursh
`nu` seems very cool (and I love the name ;), but isn't building atm.
In Introducing nushellShow HN: Oursh - WIP Rust Posix Shell with Shebang-Blocks
1 points · Open discussionShameless post of a little shell I've been working on: https://github.com/nixpulvis/oursh. It aims to be support a POSIX and modern language.
And some writeups, if you're into shells:
- https://nixpulvis.com/ramblings/2018-07-11-building-a-shell-...
- https://nixpulvis.com/ramblings/2018-10-15-building-a-shell-...
In Anatomy of a shellI agree with the first two points, not sure how Rust and GPUs are really related yet. I mean I know you can bind into GL/etc libs, but there's something more profound about Rust's type system, and the parallelism / memory model of a GPU (or CPU/heterogeneous computation in general). AFAIK, there's no way to write GPU shader code that shares the static analysis from the Rust CPU code. It would be very interesting to be able to talk about the move semantics across the full modern computing architecture.
If anyone knows work being done in this area I'd be curious to read more personally.
As for a better shell, I also completely agree, but I'm not sure it needs to break POSIX. Shameless little plug, I recently started a shell in Rust myself: https://github.com/nixpulvis/oursh
In Redox – A Unix-Like Operating System Written in RustI've been considering how I might implement this as part of "Pipe old commands without rerunning" from my project's README. https://github.com/nixpulvis/oursh#features
In Show HN: Ultimate Plumber – a tool for writing Linux pipes with live previewFunny seeing this pop up as I've spent this whole weekend working on a Rust POSIX shell: https://github.com/nixpulvis/oursh.
`&` is my next thing to implement.
In A Unix Shell poster from 1983