vindarel on Show HN: Mount Unix system into Common Lisp image

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Wow, that's crazy O_o

- Lish allows to mix&match shell and Lisp code, with regular syntax. https://github.com/nibbula/lish/

    $ echo ,*package*
    #<PACKAGE "LISH-USER">
    $ (defun hello (name) (format t "hello ~a!!~&" name))
    $ (hello "me")
    hello me!!
    NIL
    $ (hello "me") | wc -w
    => 2

It is usable. Interactive commands like sudo and htop work, some like less and fzf don't. So it ships a pager, `view`. It has a directory mode, a Lisp REPL with a debugger, completion…. It is not done, the author keeps hacking on it. Hackers invited to have a look.

- SHCL is a posix-like shell written in CL. https://github.com/bradleyjensen/shcl (it doesn't have completion. Not active.)

https://github.com/CodyReichert/awesome-cl#shells-shells-int...

kscarletOP3y

Thanks for the pointer to lish! I didn't know it had all that, I know it exists but was intimated by its non-standard packaging...

I decided to not go too far on the structured/object shell route for Unix in Lisp, instead trying to get existing Unix utilities to work as seamlessly as possible first. But maybe in the future I could integrate some work from lish. That's lots of impressive work under yew/los and yew/tools!

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