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I started lsh a few weeks before finding out about Rash. I found it too complicated to be used as a replacement for sh, but I might not have read enough about it to make a proper judgment. In the end I wanted to implement something that behaved exactly like I'd expect to.


I'm late to the party, but I'm the author of Rash. Rash's documentation is terrible and out of date, but I've actually been planning to redo/improve all of the documentation within a week or two. I'm hoping that once I do that it will be much more approachable. Rash tries to allow both Bash style things and more normal Racket to be done with ease and mixed, and a lot of the complexity of Rash has to do with getting those two things to work together, and to allow lots of macro extensibility. But I think you'll find that it's quite powerful and useful... once I make it easier to make sense of.

Of course I'm also happy for anyone to make a new shell that they like and want to use themselves. I did it, after all...


Hi there, thanks for replying. I’m quite sure Rash is superior to my toy program, tbh I can’t wait to read more about it and check your code. If I have some free time I’ll try to contribute too. Cheers!




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