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lloydde on Feb 12, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: From AST to Lossless Syntax Tree

This is the first I've read about the oil shell. I've tried a few times to move to fish shell, but I'm too simple a shell user not to be tripped up regularly when I paste bash in, so I end up back at zsh for interactive and bash for scripts.

ycmbntrthrwaway on Feb 12, 2017 [–]

oil shell is not ready to be used as a login shell, it is a prototype. The most interesting part of it currently is its blog at http://www.oilshell.org/blog/

lloydde on Feb 12, 2017 | [–]

I'm very much enjoying reading "Translating Shell to Oil" http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2017/02/05.html

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