Anyone have recs for good Android equivalents?
Readit Newsaterp commented on Show HN: My iOS app to practice sight reading (10 years in the App Store) apps.apple.com/us/app/not... · Posted by u/rooster117
Work on what you want, so don't let me deter you. But in my personal case, what pushed me from fish to xonsh was that I could never quite internalize the way it wanted to do functions, if statements (and tests inside them) and loops.
Once you were reading code, it made sense for the most part. But when I had to write a new multiline command or a script, I had to look things up in documentation constantly. For my brain "similar but different" was torture, not an advantage.
With Xonsh you get real Python and this solves all my problems. As soon as you learn what $VAR, $(CMD), and @EXPR do, you're good to go!
I hear you, real Python has its benefits :) The way I see it, these are different approaches to solving similar (but still quite different) problems. In the case of rad, it's just a language, it's not trying to replace your shell, but the fact that it's only Python-like might indeed deter some people. But - it also opens up some unique syntax that can be tailored really well to CLI scripts. For example, the syntax for args [1] or json "rad blocks" [2], as I've called them.
[1] https://amterp.github.io/rad/guide/args/#arg-declarations
[2] https://amterp.github.io/rad/guide/rad-blocks/#basic-example
Is composability not a goal of this language? Like how do you capture the output of an if block? Or how do you suppress one's output while retaining other side effects like variable assignments?
Don't think I'm understanding what you mean - composability of what exactly? It's a very Python-like language, so if-blocks behave like they do in Python/C, etc. Suppressing one's output: are you referring to invoking shell commands? Each shell invocation (at the moment) happens in its own session, independent of others, so variable assignments really only matter if you're basically embedding a shell script in RSL as e.g. a multiline string, and then invoking it. But I might be misunderstanding what you mean!
Might be interesting to folks in this thread - I'm working on a CLI tool/language which aims to let people write better scripts, more easily. It integrates well with Bash if it's needed, but lets you to avoid writing whole scripts in Bash and particularly some of the more painful aspects like arg parsing.
This page gives a bit of a preview, plus there are some links at the bottom to additional features. Still under development tho!
There is also Homerow (homerow.app) for MacOS that does this on a system level
Homerow looks very cool. Is it actively being supported? Looks like it still uses App Center despite that being sunset, plus the change log shows the last update in June 2024, and before that in April 2023
aterp commented on Show HN: Nuenki - Learn a language while you browse the web nuenki.app... · Posted by u/Alex-Programs
This is very very cool! I'm stoked about the idea but 18 AUD/month is a lot, subscriptions add up. I'm more willing to pay something below 10 AUD, plus a longer trial.
I understand if that cost range is just not feasible, though.
In any case, best of luck with this!
Makefile enthusiasts may enjoy this audio episode on Makefile:
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podgenai/episodes/Ma...
I don't hate the idea of AI generated podcasts (quite the opposite), but I can't shake that I can't trust what they're saying. High quality podcasts have fact checking and a reputation to uphold. On this, they just slap a disclaimer on that it might contain inaccuracies.
Will give it a listen tho!
It's true, although GPT has given Makefiles a second life by helping write them, delaying their demise.
It's an interesting phenomenon. ChatGPT and other LLMs have really opened up previously "archaic" tooling like Make and Bash. I've "written" more Bash in the last year than my entire career previously, because LLMs are such good copilots for that.
Sourcegraph search is amazing. I can point to any hash in our repo and search by regex/path regex. Results are instant and in json format. I hacked together a 'cs' script in bash using the sg cli client and some git calls, as I missed Google's cs command since leaving. Works perfectly, faster than ctags/any local indexer.
What does cs command do?