Yesterday, System Crafters did a live episode on Fennel, a Clojure-inspired Lisp that compiles to Lua. What fun! Fennel is easy to install because it's just one file. Here's what I did on my Debian 12 box. Lua If you don't already have Lua installed, start with that. There isn't a Debian package called lua, there are several different versions. The latest is called lua5.4. sudo apt install lua5.
Terminals have a special place in computing history, surviving along with the command line in t [...]
a dynamic language for the joy of programming. Contribute to if-not-nil/revo development by creating an account on GitHub.
revo, the expressive general-purpose dynamic language (now hosted on https://github.com/if-not-nil/revo)
It may or may not surprise you to know that the bash shell has a very rich array of convenient shortcuts that can make your life, working with the command line, a whole lot easier. This ability to edit the command line using shortcuts is provided by the GNU Readline library. This library is used by many other *nix application besides bash, so learning some of these shortcuts will not only allow you to zip around bash commands with absurd ease :), but can also make you more proficient in using a variety of other *nix applications that use Readline.
JLine is a Java library for handling console input. - jline/jline3
tl;dr: This is a ´problem -> solution´ type post, reflecting on problems I encountered while writing a bash prompt generator. A small need for a more informative prompt This all started about 10 years ago when I was working as a Java consultant in Oslo. We had just moved from SVN to git, and the concept of feature branches was suddenly a thing. I hadn’t really been very involved with VCS before git, but now I felt like I understood it. (I didn’t). So I wanted to add the current git branch to my prompt. I quickly ended up with something like this:
Library for building powerful interactive command line applications in Python - prompt-toolkit/python-prompt-toolkit
The GNU Awk User’s Guide
How to write programs that won't break in a year