Dune is a shell designed for powerful scripting. Think of it as an unholy combination of bash and Lisp.

You can do all the normal shell operations like piping, file redirection, and running programs. But, you also have access to a standard library and functional programming abstractions for various programming and sysadmin tasks!

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  • @[email protected]
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    19 hours ago

    This sounds very similar to “rash” which is based on racket

    The name conflicts with the build tool used for ocaml, which is also called dune.

  • @Sanctus
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    21 day ago

    Might swap Kitty for this on my next install >.>

    • @[email protected]
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      419 hours ago

      Kitty is the terminal emulator, the program that provides an interface. The shell you are using if you haven’t changed anything is probably bash. So you would use duneshell instead of bash, but still in kitty

      • @Sanctus
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        219 hours ago

        Hell yeah, doing this right now on my work laptop.

    • Daeraxa
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      71 day ago

      But Kitty is ‘just’ the emulator right? It doesn’t have a shell by itself.

      • @Sanctus
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        31 day ago

        Yeah it is just my terminal emulator and this is specifically a bash+lisp shell. That wouldnt prevent me from attempting to use it the same on my first try like the special boi I am.

        • Daeraxa
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          323 hours ago

          So you can keep Kitty, just swap the shell you have it start by default (probably not a good idea to swap to this system-wide)

          • @Sanctus
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            022 hours ago

            I know just enough about Linux (arch BTW) to get myself in trouble so idk if that would be a good idea.