Rubish: A Unix shell written in pure Ruby

(github.com)

37 points | by winebarrel 3 hours ago

5 comments

  • faangguyindia 35 minutes ago
    People think Ruby is a slow language, but little do they know Ruby is a slower language than Go. But ruby these days is faster than Python.
    • dahrkael 23 minutes ago
      when ruby was trendy the 1.9 branch was still cooking so in a lot of people's mind it is veery slow
  • keyle 41 minutes ago
    Oh my god this is the best name to the application. You win the weekend.
  • swader999 15 minutes ago
    Good April 1 article.
  • ifh-hn 1 hour ago
    I much prefer the pipe to method chaining.
    • psychoslave 49 minutes ago
      Could this be elaborated?
      • ilvez 6 minutes ago
        ls | grep file.txt vs ls().grep("file.txt")
  • minraws 1 hour ago
    Is it just me of did others also read rubbish instead of rubi-sh...I think that might be the joke. hm...
    • pelasaco 40 minutes ago
      The repository owner is a true ruby hero. I am not sure if the name is a joke, and he was just fooling around, but the code is real.