I recently (re)discovered the Oil shell. The last time I saw it, it was trying to write a language to subsume Bash, Awk, and Make.
However, I came back to it doing nearly accomplishing two smaller goals:
- Writing a fast, statically-parsed shell (
osh
) as close to Bash-compatible as possible. - Developing a stricter subset of Bash from which to build a new language (
oil
).
And I really like it.
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