MImichaelsbradley·Sep 18, 2024
And now there’s Rash: The Reckless Racket Shell
http://rash-lang.org/
https://github.com/willghatch/racket-rash
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The Reckless Racket Shell
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Shell is my favorite domain-specific language. But many (including myself) would argue that domain-specific languages are generally better embedded. Many projects aiming to…
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| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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8 sourcesSee also Rash: The Reckless Racket Shell
http://rash-lang.org/
https://github.com/willghatch/racket-rash
In Zuo: A Tiny Racket for ScriptingIt is interesting, but not something you’d really want to rely on. (see the issues, comments and commit history: https://github.com/willghatch/racket-rash)
This project could really benefit from picking up a couple of steady contributors. It looks like the author is a new dad, and his commit history looks about like what mine did at that stage.
In Shh: Simple Shell Scripting from HaskellCheck this:
https://github.com/willghatch/racket-rash/tree/master/rash-d...
Also check the videos on Rash:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Acjqx1MPkw4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXcwK3XNU3Y
In Rash – The Reckless Racket ShellI've been noticing more swiss army-knife-like cli tools in the last few years. It would be cool if there were some that could support avro/parquet/orc formats. This one is notable because it's written in D lang by a mega corp.
Some useful cli data wrangling tools --
https://github.com/BurntSushi/xsv
https://github.com/dinedal/textql
https://github.com/n3mo/data-science
https://stedolan.github.io/jq/
https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/parallel
https://github.com/willghatch/racket-rash
Would you have any others you recommend?
In TSV Utilities: Command line tools for large, tabular data filesThere is also rash, with Racket: https://github.com/willghatch/racket-rash
In SHCL – An unholy union of Posix shell and Common LispRASH, RAcket SHell library and language: https://github.com/willghatch/racket-rash
Note: I am not the author
In Show HN: Lisp ShellShell is my favorite domain-specific language. But many (including myself) would argue that domain-specific languages are generally better embedded. Many projects aiming to mixing shell with general purpose languages find a nice embedded DSL for subprocess/pipeline management. Some others find a convenient way to run shell commands or pipelines by mixing grammars and trying to disambiguate them. [Shameless self-promotion] I've been working on a project that aims to not only have a nice DSL for running process pipelines, but focuses on making a syntax for using all functionality of the host language as a command language, called Rash[1]. It is hosted in Racket, and can be embedded in Racket at the module or expression level, and also normal Racket expressions can be embedded in Rash (they can alternate arbitrarily deep). It supports
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process pipelines, Racket function/object pipelines, and mixes of the two. It's still alpha and has a TODO list a mile long, but I've been using it as my daily driver interactive shell for months and have loved it so far.
[1]: https://github.com/willghatch/racket-rash