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Projects that are experimental or daringly innovating the terminal and command line world? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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What projects are out there seeking to innovate in the terminal and command line space, and improve or revolutionize the terminal environment?

NuShell is one such example, a shell that uses structured data in its pipelines. Many other experimental shells out there innovating in different spaces.
An even more daring example is DomTerm. It's a terminal emulator with more rich rendering. Supports rich text, images, etc while maintaining xterm compatibility.

Please do not shy from answering projects that are very experimental, early stage, break a lot of backwards compatibility or radically change the current way of doing things.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What problems are you trying to solve?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I like exploring and learning about innovative software.

Sometimes, I don't know about a problem until I find its solution. For example, before ever using the terminal seriously, I never felt I had any problem working with my computer. Nonetheless, the terminal world has given me a lot of enjoyment and solved a lot of problems around navigating a computer and working with it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Be aware, most corporate environments running Linux or a UNIX will be using POSIX compliant (or mostly compliant) shells. Fish is fun, but if you aren't comfortable with bash, dash, zsh, and/or AT&T ksh, your time ramping up to supporting the systems will take a lot longer.

Same for those python shells. Handy as hell, but not widely deployed around businesses. So you'd need to be on point with real python skills and POSIX style shells.

If you aren't using, or don't intend to, do any of this for corporate jobs, then sky's the limit and have fun. This is not to say you can't find these in a job somewhere, just that it won't be very common.