A Lisp REPL as my main shell
The shell is dead, long live the REPL!
- Track: Declarative and Minimalistic Computing devroom
- Room: D.declarative.minimalistic
- Day: Sunday
- Start: 11:20
- End: 11:50
- Video with Q&A: D.declarativeminimalistic
- Video only: D.declarativeminimalistic
- Chat: Join the conversation!
The popular but aging shells (Bash and the like) suffer from many design flaws: lack of structured data, pipes are hard-to-debug blackboxes, lack of interactivity, while the user interfaces are mostly poor and limiting. High time we moved on away from this cruft, starting with a top-notch interactive language boasting full-fledged introspection and debugging.
For this experiment I've used Common Lisp and SLY, a Common Lisp REPL and development environment for Emacs.
Speakers
| Pierre Neidhardt |