Oil VS explainshell

(author here) Yeah you just repeated what https://oilshell.org/ is You'd want to be able to go $NEWSH my-bash-script.sh and it should just work. $NEWSH my-newsh-script.nsh should also work, obviously.

    osh my-bash-script.sh  # works, it's the most bash-compatible shell by a mile.

- Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

> I know how and love to write in bash. But oh god was it painful to learn This is very well said :) > Sad that there's nothing established to take its place (Perl is read-only, python is not good enough as unix glue, everything else is too obscure). Is there anything notable? Either particularly well designed, or just popular? I think I've only ever heard of Oil (https://oilshell.org). - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

In our fork for https://oilshell.org/ , and it made a lot more sense to people. It's funny how "sticky" syntax is -- because two contributors ALSO read * as "pointer" ! So I changed into the MyPy syntax after 5 years, and concluded I should have done that quite awhile ago. --- The funny thing is that while the web page says "Abstract Grammar", I would not call Zephyr ASDL a grammar. Python has a separate... - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

Isn't this just another attempt at what Oil is doing? Source: almost 3 years ago

Https://explainshell.com/ also is good for explaining commands. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

Https://explainshell.com/ can help with that but isn't perfect. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

Explainshell.com is a reference I was recently given from a mentor. Source: 6 months ago

Shout out to https://explainshell.com/ for being a great resource to understand cli tools and options. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

Explain Shell: A handy tool that explains what each part of a Unix command does. - Source: dev.to / 9 months ago