topshell-language/topshell

TopShell - a purely functional, reactive scripting language

5 mentions on Hacker News by 2 people: 1 story, 4 comments · first 2019-08-03 · latest 2025-11-12

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…ago I worked on TopShell, an attempt to reimagine the shell+terminal using functional programming: https://github.com/topshell-language/topshell#readme It ticks some of the boxes, but tonnes of work would be needed to turn it into a full…
comment by continuational · 2025-11-12 · in The terminal of the future
…- a purely functional, reactive scripting language for fetch/process/visualize style tasks: https://github.com/topshell-language/topshell
comment by continuational · 2021-05-16 · in Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?
That's part of what drove me to write TopShell, which is a notebook-like interface: https://github.com/topshell-language/topshell * Information only flows downwards. * Computations are cached. * Things are automatically recomputed when the…
comment by continuational · 2020-01-29 · in What’s wrong with computational notebooks?
…this as a personal pet project? - Do you think the project will be alive in 1, 3, 5 years? [0]: https://github.com/topshell-language/topshell/wiki/TopShell:...
comment by maddyboo · 2019-08-04 · in Show HN: Purely Functional Scripting