Programming Languages @programming.dev armchair_progamer @programming.dev 3 mo. ago

Dune Shell: bash + lisp

A shell🐚 by the beach🏖️!

Dune is a shell designed for powerful scripting. Think of it as an unholy combination of bash and Lisp.

You can do all the normal shell operations like piping, file redirection, and running programs. But, you also have access to a standard library and functional programming abstractions for various programming and sysadmin tasks!

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Just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should do it.
This sounds very similar to "rash" which is based on racket

The name conflicts with the build tool used for ocaml, which is also called dune.
Might swap Kitty for this on my next install >.>
- But Kitty is 'just' the emulator right? It doesn't have a shell by itself.
  
  Yeah it is just my terminal emulator and this is specifically a bash+lisp shell. That wouldnt prevent me from attempting to use it the same on my first try like the special boi I am.
- Kitty is the terminal emulator, the program that provides an interface. The shell you are using if you haven't changed anything is probably bash. So you would use duneshell instead of bash, but still in kitty
  
  Hell yeah, doing this right now on my work laptop.
Pros and cons vs eshell?

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