Elvish, expressive programming language and a versatile interactive shell
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HN comment orderI like Elvish. It's clean, consistent and stable. Writing a shell script in Elvish is so much more productive and simpler than, say, bash. There are are also fewer pitfalls and tricks you need to master. The Elvish shell language doesn't change much which is nice nowadays. The Elvish executable has also got a built-in lsp which is another nice touch. Finally it is a "proper" shell because it has job control (which other new age shells like nushell don't)…
Elvish author here, AMA :)
The semantics of its command language is what made it interesting for me: https://elv.sh/learn/unique-semantics.html
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- Total points
- 343
- Total comments
- 164
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-09-14 | Elvish: a shell with some unique semantics | HerrMonnezza | 2 | 1 |
| 2018-11-05 | Elvish Shell | xiaq | 1 | 0 |
| 2018-11-05 | Elvish: Elvish Shell | signa11 | 6 | 0 |
| 2018-12-28 | Elvish | tosh | 1 | 0 |
| 2020-09-09 | Elvish is a friendly interactive shell and an expressive programming languageFirst breakout | fmakunbound | 149 | 49 |
| 2021-12-07 | Elv.sh | debdut | 1 | 0 |
| 2023-02-09 | Elvish: Multiplatform shell with clojure-like programming language written in Go | dcu | 3 | 0 |
| 2024-02-09 | Elvish, expressive programming language and a versatile interactive shell | bwidlar | 3 | 0 |
| 2024-05-10 | Elvish, expressive programming language and a versatile interactive shellHall induction · Best thread · Latest 20+ point return | bwidlar | 177 | 114 |