How to build a Nushell

Ship It! SRE, Platform Engineering, DevOps

Devyn Cairns & Jakub Žádník join Justin & Autumn to talk about building a new kind of cross-platform shell that provides easy extensions with traditional command compatibility. That’s no easy feat!

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Featuring:

• Devyn Cairns – Twitter, GitHub
• Jakub Žádník – Mastodon, GitHub
• Justin Garrison – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Autumn Nash – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

Intro

• Nu Shell
• iBook iPad cases

What the distro

• Rhino Linux
• Diamond Linux-TT
• Pardus
• 4M Linux
• q4os
• Accessible Coconut
• Dragonfly BSD

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Chapters

1. This is Ship It! (00:00:00)

2. The opener (00:00:51)

3. Sponsor: Sentry (00:07:16)

https://sentry.io/

4. What is Nushell? (00:11:03)

5. Python vs Nushell (00:12:00)

6. Built in Rust (00:13:46)

7. Devyn's backstory (00:15:26)

8. PowerShell data piping? (00:17:18)

9. SimCity IRL? (00:19:09)

10. Jakub's backstory (00:19:50)

11. Justin's first Nushell experience (00:20:51)

12. Bash in your shell (00:23:20)

13. Calling commands (00:24:25)

14. Cross-platform testing (00:25:26)

15. Why Nu? (00:27:36)

16. Making contributions (00:28:05)

17. Jakub's PhD program (00:28:56)

18. Contribution system (00:29:18)

19. Core commands (00:30:10)

20. Release process (00:31:38)

21. Shadowing releases (00:33:28)

22. Surprising usecases (00:36:07)

23. User spread (00:39:46)

24. Integrating external commands (00:43:07)

25. Getting rid of Rust? (00:44:13)

26. Thanks for joining us! (00:47:18)

27. Sponsor: Neon (00:48:56)

https://neon.tech/enterprise

28. The closer (00:54:50)

29. What the distro? (00:56:25)

30. Outro (01:12:09)