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People may also be interested in the Tako shell, which is a fork of Xonsh that “sacrifice[s] some of the ‘fancy stuff’ so that basic shell operations work as expected, the codebase is small, and things are as performant as can be expected from a shell written in Python.”

(Homepage) https://takoshell.org/index.html

(Differences from Xonsh) https://takoshell.org/xonsh.html

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Not impressed with tako. Replaces the BSD license with GPL for mostly removing functionality and reverts.

It looks unmaintained. Last release 5 years ago, documentation is sporadic.

Reminds me of some of the angry forks of Black that get like 100 downloads a year.

I liked the idea of tako - a slightly slimmed down, less clunky, version of Xonsh. However, it requires significant patching in order to work with modern python (I tried with 3.12, but I believe some of the breaking changes occur in 3.9+).

Specifically, there are a number of imports from collections which appear to no longer work, and I had to install a fairly old version of collections to get Set and MutableSequence (which `tako/takoshell/tools.py` subclasses).

`hz.mit.edu` is not a git forge, so I don't think I can submit a PR without e-mailing the author.

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