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Well, zsh isn't much better than Bash. Fish beats both, but the web-based stuff annoys me. Given Windows has the super-powerful and elegant PowerShell, I think a new shell language is definitely needed.

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I've been doing this for some time: https://github.com/xiaq/elvish (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8090534)

Thanks for reminding me about your project, which I saw earlier here! I was about to try it out and then forgot.

There was a powershell-like shell project for linux. Instead of a unified runtime it used d-bus to automatically pipe objects from a process to another.

Due to the d-bus dependency and other details, I remember it being a Gnome/RH-related project but I cannot remember the name.

(I'm not persuaded that d-bus is the best choice here, but still, it was an interesting project)

Anyone remembers it?

Wasn't that hotwire? [1]

1: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/hotwire

Thanks, but no.

Another detail I remember: its website or the blog of its author was surely online in 2011/2012 and it has a slightly brownish/reddish theme

Not just a shell language, I want a better/modern shell. Fish is pretty good but not quite and I don't need "newbie friendly".

Exactly! The newbie web configuration is such a turn off, but the language is definitely better - events and all.

You can always just edit config.fish in vim if you want to, that's what I do.

It's hard to explain, but just the fact that it has some huge useless feature bothers me.

Is it really that huge? The config pages are pretty simple, and it looks like it's just served using Python's built-in SimpleHTTPServer library.

It's some kind of a heuristic rule: Don't use a product by a guy with a vastly different mindset than your own.

> super-powerful and elegant PowerShell

I'd agree, unfortunately it's pronounced PowersHell.

(by those who have to use it)

Can you be more specific? I think the language features and the ability to pass structured data vs text, the OOP features are what all shells should be doing in the new millennium.

PowerShell scripting is pretty terrible though. And it's concept is limited to only 1 runtime.

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