Oil Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• Unix as IDE: Introduction (2012)

  (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

• The roots of an obscure Bourne shell error message

  > 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

• AST vs. Bytecode: Interpreters in the Age of Meta-Compilation [pdf]

  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

• Moving beyond bash shell programming

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