This looks really neat. There's way too little experimentation happening in shells. Most shells are a few decades old, and they provide incredibly poor defaults and tooling.
For example, since I'm prone to making stupid mistakes, I always use a linter. But as far as I know, there weren't any well known options for linting until ShellCheck [0].
Personally, I've been using fish for a while now and I'm generally happy with it. It has great defaults, so I rarely have to tweak anything. Hacking together small scripts is easy, leaving very little room for error.
If I have to do anything event remotely tricky, I use node with shelljs [1]. Now that async functions are available, it results in some pretty clean scripts. And although I haven't tried it yet, the pkg [2] tool allows you to bundle things up into a single binary. That should make certain deployments incredibly easy.
Circling back to Elvish, one minor detail that immediately stood out to me was that they create another folder in your home folder. Since I dislike the ever-growing clutter in my home, I created a GitHub issue asking them to consider following the XDG base directory spec [3].
For example, since I'm prone to making stupid mistakes, I always use a linter. But as far as I know, there weren't any well known options for linting until ShellCheck [0].
Personally, I've been using fish for a while now and I'm generally happy with it. It has great defaults, so I rarely have to tweak anything. Hacking together small scripts is easy, leaving very little room for error.
If I have to do anything event remotely tricky, I use node with shelljs [1]. Now that async functions are available, it results in some pretty clean scripts. And although I haven't tried it yet, the pkg [2] tool allows you to bundle things up into a single binary. That should make certain deployments incredibly easy.
Circling back to Elvish, one minor detail that immediately stood out to me was that they create another folder in your home folder. Since I dislike the ever-growing clutter in my home, I created a GitHub issue asking them to consider following the XDG base directory spec [3].
[0] https://www.shellcheck.net
[1] http://documentup.com/shelljs/shelljs
[2] https://github.com/zeit/pkg
[3] https://github.com/elves/elvish/issues/383