Nushell

What is Nushell?

Nushell is a powerful shell and scripting language with strong typing, querying, and piping functionalities.

From the official documentation; Introduction:

The goal of this project is to take the Unix philosophy of shells, where pipes connect simple commands together, and bring it to the modern style of development. Thus, rather than being either a shell, or a programming language, Nushell connects both by bringing a rich programming language and a full-featured shell together into one package.

Nu takes cues from a lot of familiar territory: traditional shells like bash, object based shells like PowerShell, gradually typed languages like TypeScript, functional programming, systems programming, and more. But rather than trying to be a jack of all trades, Nu focuses its energy on doing a few things well:

Being a flexible cross-platform shell with a modern feel
Solving problems as a modern programming language that works with the structure of your data
Giving clear error messages and clean IDE support

Examples

Shell Examples…

0x[7F000001] | chunks 1 | each { into int } | str join "."
# => 127.0.0.1

ls | where size > 1kb
# => ╭───┬───────────────────┬──────┬─────────┬────────────╮
# => │ # │       name        │ type │  size   │  modified  │
# => ├───┼───────────────────┼──────┼─────────┼────────────┤
# => │ 0 │ Gemfile           │ file │ 1.1 KiB │ 3 days ago │
# => │ 1 │ Gemfile.lock      │ file │ 6.9 KiB │ 3 days ago │
# => │ 2 │ LICENSE           │ file │ 1.1 KiB │ 3 days ago │
# => │ 3 │ SUMMARY.md        │ file │ 3.7 KiB │ 3 days ago │
# => ╰───┴───────────────────┴──────┴─────────┴────────────╯

help commands | where name == each | first | get params.name
# => ╭───┬──────────────────╮
# => │ 0 │ closure          │
# => │ 1 │ --help(-h)       │
# => │ 2 │ --keep-empty(-k) │
# => ╰───┴──────────────────╯

http get https://programming.dev/api/v3/site | get all_languages | length
# => 184

http get https://programming.dev/api/v3/site | get taglines.content
# => ╭───┬────────────────────────────────────╮
# => │ 0 │ Broken communities have been fixed │
# => ╰───┴────────────────────────────────────╯

Web-Links

Website
GitHub (Rust, MIT)

Welcome to the nostalgia-filled piefed instance of yesteryear.

Open Registration with Application questionnaire.

If you have a question or comment you can post in !meta@retrofed.com or message @DosDude@retrofed.com or @Die4Ever@retrofed.com

In case of downtime and/or emergency, we will post updates on @DosDude@mastodon.social

Some rules we try to uphold:

Be civil. Bigotry is not welcome. This includes (but is not limited to): transphobia, queerphobia, racism, ageism and ableism. We do not promote hate.
Communities need to be Retro or Retro-adjacent.
Please don't upload pornographic content. (use an external image host for that)

What is Nushell?

Nushell is a powerful shell and scripting language with strong typing, querying, and piping functionalities.

From the official documentation; Introduction:

The goal of this project is to take the Unix philosophy of shells, where pipes connect simple commands together, and bring it to the modern style of development. Thus, rather than being either a shell, or a programming language, Nushell connects both by bringing a rich programming language and a full-featured shell together into one package.

Nu takes cues from a lot of familiar territory: traditional shells like bash, object based shells like PowerShell, gradually typed languages like TypeScript, functional programming, systems programming, and more. But rather than trying to be a jack of all trades, Nu focuses its energy on doing a few things well:

Being a flexible cross-platform shell with a modern feel
Solving problems as a modern programming language that works with the structure of your data
Giving clear error messages and clean IDE support

Examples

Shell Examples…

0x[7F000001] | chunks 1 | each { into int } | str join "."
# => 127.0.0.1

ls | where size > 1kb
# => ╭───┬───────────────────┬──────┬─────────┬────────────╮
# => │ # │       name        │ type │  size   │  modified  │
# => ├───┼───────────────────┼──────┼─────────┼────────────┤
# => │ 0 │ Gemfile           │ file │ 1.1 KiB │ 3 days ago │
# => │ 1 │ Gemfile.lock      │ file │ 6.9 KiB │ 3 days ago │
# => │ 2 │ LICENSE           │ file │ 1.1 KiB │ 3 days ago │
# => │ 3 │ SUMMARY.md        │ file │ 3.7 KiB │ 3 days ago │
# => ╰───┴───────────────────┴──────┴─────────┴────────────╯

help commands | where name == each | first | get params.name
# => ╭───┬──────────────────╮
# => │ 0 │ closure          │
# => │ 1 │ --help(-h)       │
# => │ 2 │ --keep-empty(-k) │
# => ╰───┴──────────────────╯

http get https://programming.dev/api/v3/site | get all_languages | length
# => 184

http get https://programming.dev/api/v3/site | get taglines.content
# => ╭───┬────────────────────────────────────╮
# => │ 0 │ Broken communities have been fixed │
# => ╰───┴────────────────────────────────────╯

Web-Links

Website
GitHub (Rust, MIT)

What is Nushell?

Nushell is a powerful shell and scripting language with strong typing, querying, and piping functionalities.

From the official documentation; Introduction:

The goal of this project is to take the Unix philosophy of shells, where pipes connect simple commands together, and bring it to the modern style of development. Thus, rather than being either a shell, or a programming language, Nushell connects both by bringing a rich programming language and a full-featured shell together into one package.

Nu takes cues from a lot of familiar territory: traditional shells like bash, object based shells like PowerShell, gradually typed languages like TypeScript, functional programming, systems programming, and more. But rather than trying to be a jack of all trades, Nu focuses its energy on doing a few things well:

Being a flexible cross-platform shell with a modern feel
Solving problems as a modern programming language that works with the structure of your data
Giving clear error messages and clean IDE support

Examples

Shell Examples…

0x[7F000001] | chunks 1 | each { into int } | str join "."
# => 127.0.0.1

ls | where size > 1kb
# => ╭───┬───────────────────┬──────┬─────────┬────────────╮
# => │ # │       name        │ type │  size   │  modified  │
# => ├───┼───────────────────┼──────┼─────────┼────────────┤
# => │ 0 │ Gemfile           │ file │ 1.1 KiB │ 3 days ago │
# => │ 1 │ Gemfile.lock      │ file │ 6.9 KiB │ 3 days ago │
# => │ 2 │ LICENSE           │ file │ 1.1 KiB │ 3 days ago │
# => │ 3 │ SUMMARY.md        │ file │ 3.7 KiB │ 3 days ago │
# => ╰───┴───────────────────┴──────┴─────────┴────────────╯

help commands | where name == each | first | get params.name
# => ╭───┬──────────────────╮
# => │ 0 │ closure          │
# => │ 1 │ --help(-h)       │
# => │ 2 │ --keep-empty(-k) │
# => ╰───┴──────────────────╯

http get https://programming.dev/api/v3/site | get all_languages | length
# => 184

http get https://programming.dev/api/v3/site | get taglines.content
# => ╭───┬────────────────────────────────────╮
# => │ 0 │ Broken communities have been fixed │
# => ╰───┴────────────────────────────────────╯

Web-Links

Website
GitHub (Rust, MIT)

Welcome to the nostalgia-filled piefed instance of yesteryear.

Open Registration with Application questionnaire.

If you have a question or comment you can post in !meta@retrofed.com or message @DosDude@retrofed.com or @Die4Ever@retrofed.com

In case of downtime and/or emergency, we will post updates on @DosDude@mastodon.social

Some rules we try to uphold:

Be civil. Bigotry is not welcome. This includes (but is not limited to): transphobia, queerphobia, racism, ageism and ableism. We do not promote hate.
Communities need to be Retro or Retro-adjacent.
Please don't upload pornographic content. (use an external image host for that)

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