Writing a shell in Go

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Writing a shell is rarely the kind of project you take on lightly. In this episode, Johnny is joined by Qi Xiao to explore how to go about such a feat in Go.

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Show Notes:

Elvish shell

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Chapters

1. It's Go Time! (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Fly (00:00:47)

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3. Qi Xiao (00:03:32)

4. Elvish (00:04:20)

5. What is a shell? (00:06:50)

6. Sponsor: Retool (00:16:00)

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7. Why Go? (00:18:51)

8. Different OS (00:22:59)

9. Features (00:26:30)

10. 1,000 line bash file (00:35:35)

11. The perfect use case for Go (00:37:56)

12. What Go made harder (00:43:24)

13. What's next? (00:46:19)

14. Sponsor: Timescale (00:50:25)

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15. Unpopular Opinions! (00:52:42)

16. Qi's unpop (00:53:08)

17. Johnny's unpop (00:57:46)

18. Outro (01:04:12)

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