Does anyone use a shell written in Javascript, Ruby, Clojure, etc as their everyday unix shell, instead of bash, zsh, etc? Is there any reason not to?
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1@terdon I think you might want to reconsider "all that would do"– themirrorCommented Oct 12, 2013 at 17:40
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5Also, this is the third or fourth time I ask you to go and accept some of the answers you have received. If you don't want to play by the rules of the site, why should we waste our time helping you?– terdon ♦Commented Oct 12, 2013 at 17:44
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1themirror - As @terdon has mentioned it's helpful if you mark answers as the accepted ones mainly to let everyone on the site know that your question has been answered to your satisfaction, otherwise others might continue to spend their valuable time trying to provide additional answers when none are required.– slm ♦Commented Oct 12, 2013 at 17:56
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Also: unix.stackexchange.com/questions/58011/…– RenanCommented Oct 12, 2013 at 19:56
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Well, you could use ipython as a Python shell. It works, as I reported here.
But you might want to read this answer on SO as for why Python, Ruby etc... won't make good languages for a shell.
A colleague of mine used to have emacs as it's default shell. :)
Other people like screen as a login shell for remote systems.
You can even use plain irb as a shell. (There is a module for adding the basic shell commands as ruby methods.)
