Sophia June TurnerWrote up my thoughts on why #nushell matters. And yes, they get a bit spicy 😅
Aria Desires@jntrnr i really appreciate the framing of "look it's really more of a scripting language project"
my main interaction with shells and shell scripting is "this is a temporary hell i get to live in when i want to bootstrap a usable environment with real tools and languages on a random machine"
...which necessarily precludes anything that isn't lowest-common-denominator. heck WSL defaults to /bin/sh being *dash* which is *weaker* than bash
Hippo 🍉@Gankra @jntrnr I get the "temporary hell" feeling when I'm in any shell other than bash 😅
(Well, or zsh and other similar ones.)
I used to write bash scripts long ago, but a recent foray into YunoHost debugging tells me I've lost the skill. My current scripting go-to is Perl, which makes it super simple to make pipe-friendly scripts. But would be awesome to have one language that's the shell as well as the scripting! 🐫