hsh is a slightly different take on your shell. It’s closer to a user agent than you standard POSIX shell. It’s less of an instance, of a shell, and much closer to a system shell. E.g. when you add an alias in one instance, it becomes available on all instances as well. Changing a setting in one, updates it across al.
This is free and open source software.
Website: github.com/GrayHatter/hsh
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Developer: grayhatter
License: BSD 2-Clause “Simplified” License
hsh is written in Zig. Learn Zig with our recommended free tutorials.
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Seems quite an interesting concept.