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Ion: Modern System Shell in Rust

60 points by nateb2022

by d3Xt3r

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In case you guys missed it: the popular fish shell is also now written in Rust. :)
https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/releases/tag/4.0.0

by laserbeam

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I’d like to see a real shell script written in ion very early in the readme or manual. Something that wgets a tarbal, extracts some part if the filename, checks cpu usage, draws a simple progress bar to the terminal, checks a folder for old files, some script that implements prompt completions for some cli tool…
I really don’t care that a new shell is written in rust. I care to see examples of how it actually would be better than bash.

by mtillman

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"It is written entirely in Rust, which greatly increases the overall quality and security of the shell."
Is this true? I don't know Rust so I'm probably missing context. Obvious kudos to OP for writing a shell.

by sigmonsays

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" It is still quite a ways from becoming stabilized, but we are getting very close " haha

by raggi

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I love how one of the screenshots appears to be using the ion window manager, I guess they're very aware of the name collision :D

by JadoJodo

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by timeon

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by torginus

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I might be ignorant, but it looks to me like a slightly Rust-ified Bash, not sure if there's any standout features here - if there are could somebody point those out?
I kind of hate to admit, but in many ways Powershell is stil king of the shell game (haha) - the fact that it's object based (with autocomplete!) and has a proper JIT, meaning it's fast enough in processing pretty much anything just with native shell scripts (certainly not true for Bash or Python!) gives it a very different feel. Afaik there are object based shells, but none are fast enough to be generally faster or as fast as the disk is, meaning you need to resort to tricks for heavy-duty processing.
Too bad Microsoft messed up the ergonomics, and using it feels like pulling teeth.

by ruined

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by speed_spread

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Too bad README doesn't show sample commands, discuss design or list differences from existing shells. So... it's just a shell, in Rust? Like fish, but still WIP? And only for redox-os?
In which case, why not just go with nushell https://www.nushell.sh/

by citizenpaul

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Its worth mentioning that this seems to be purpose made to work with an entire custom rust OS Redox-OS. I didn't know that at first glance since I never heard of it. It also answered my question of whats wrong with NuShell?