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Evolution of shells in Linux (developerWorks)

Evolution of shells in Linux (developerWorks)

Posted Dec 11, 2011 11:22 UTC (Sun) by HelloWorld (guest, #56129)
In reply to: Evolution of shells in Linux (developerWorks) by cmccabe
Parent article: Evolution of shells in Linux (developerWorks)

There was a project like that actually:
http://lwn.net/Articles/443473/
I haven't heard of it since though, and its github repo hasn't seen any activity since June.


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Evolution of shells in Linux (developerWorks)

Posted Dec 12, 2011 23:33 UTC (Mon) by cmccabe (guest, #60281) [Link]

TermKit is (was?) an extremely ambitious project basically involving a redesign from scratch of the whole terminal system. It seems like they wanted it to be GUI-based and mostly coded in HTML5.

What I am thinking of is just a set of utilities to manipulate JSON easily-- nothing more, nothing less.

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