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Oils is our upgrade path from bash to a better language and runtime. It's also for Python and JavaScript users who avoid shell!

225 mentions on Hacker News by 35 people: 15 stories, 210 comments · first 2016-11-26 · latest 2025-11-06

Mentions per year 225 mentions · busiest year 2020 (52)
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  1. ▲ 12
    Process Tracing Projects
    story by todsacerdoti · 2025-09-26 · 0 comments
  2. ▲ 5
    Why Lexing and Parsing Should Be Separate
    story by todsacerdoti · 2025-07-20 · 0 comments
  3. ▲ 259
    Biggest shell programs
    story by todsacerdoti · 2024-12-07 · 123 comments
  4. ▲ 3
    Survey of Config Languages
    story by networked · 2024-09-29 · 1 comment
  5. ▲ 48
    Alternative Shells
    story by sdht0 · 2023-08-24 · 10 comments
  6. ▲ 3
    Survey of Config Languages
    story by chubot · 2022-07-31 · 0 comments
  7. ▲ 3
    Where Contributors Have Problems with Oil
    story by chubot · 2022-05-28 · 1 comment
  8. ▲ 2
    Alternative Regex Syntax
    story by nemoniac · 2022-02-17 · 0 comments
  9. ▲ 186
    Alternative Shells
    story by chubot · 2021-02-13 · 106 comments
  10. ▲ 37
    The Biggest Shell Programs in the World
    story by hyperpape · 2021-01-05 · 4 comments
  11. ▲ 4
    How Interactive Shells Work
    story by pcr910303 · 2020-03-27 · 0 comments
  12. ▲ 3
    Compact AST Representation
    story by tosh · 2020-02-05 · 0 comments
  13. ▲ 1
    Shell Agnostic Completions: The Shellac Protocol
    story by pcr910303 · 2020-01-23 · 0 comments
  14. ▲ 2
    Eggex(Oil shell): New syntax for regexes meant to be transpiled
    story by pcr910303 · 2019-11-27 · 1 comment
  15. ▲ 2
    Egg Expressions (Oil Regexes)
    story by chubot · 2019-09-23 · 1 comment