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Show HN: A Lisp Interpreter for Shell Scripting

quintussss — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 20:58:37 +0000

Redstart is a lightweight Lisp interpreter written in C++ with a focus on shell scripting. It lets you combine the expressive power of Lisp with the practicality of the Unix shell: you can run commands, capture output, pipe between processes, and still use Lisp syntax for logic and structure. Think of it as writing your shell scripts in Lisp instead of Bash.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45520585

Points: 114

# Comments: 25

New comment by quintussss in "A Lisp Interpreter for Shell Scripting"

quintussss — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 06:47:54 +0000

An experimental Lisp interpreter written in C++ with a focus on shell scripting. It lets you combine the expressive power of Lisp with the practicality of the Unix shell: you can run commands, capture output, pipe between processes, and still use Lisp syntax for logic and structure. Think of it as writing your shell scripts in Lisp instead of Bash.

A Lisp Interpreter for Shell Scripting

quintussss — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 06:47:54 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/gue-ni/lisp

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45512898

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by quintussss in "M4 always was horrible, and I say that as the original author of GNU M4"

quintussss — Sun, 07 Apr 2024 09:44:44 +0000

I worked at a company that heavily used M4 for generating header files and I hated it. The syntax is just awful.

New comment by quintussss in "Show HN: Curl2Url"

quintussss — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 12:23:32 +0000

What does this do? It should really be explained on the site.

New comment by quintussss in "Interview with Andreas Kling of Serenity OS (2022)"

quintussss — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 10:53:36 +0000

But isn't this just about compiling the system? Not really 'building', ie programming a operating system.

New comment by quintussss in "Collection of "Today I Learned" notes"

quintussss — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 07:08:59 +0000

Wow, didn't expect there to be so many notes.

New comment by quintussss in "Localization Failure: Temperature Is Hard"

quintussss — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 07:04:31 +0000

One thing that really annoys me is youtube translating video titles - why would I ever want the title of an english language video to be translated?

Remove Image Metadata with GitHub Action

quintussss — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 06:52:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.jakobmaier.at/posts/remove-exif-data-with-github-action/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36754932

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by quintussss in "Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft"

quintussss — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 06:16:02 +0000

This reminds me of that one talk at a german hacker conference (CCC) about xerox printers inserting false numbers into scans

New comment by quintussss in "An Excel error led Austria's SPÖ to announce the wrong candidate as the winner"

quintussss — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 07:29:38 +0000

No this is not true. There was an election among party members, that was with around 147000 people. This election apparently worked. It was the subsequent election among the party functionaries (601 people) that failed due to someone not being able to do 4th grade math.

New comment by quintussss in "Show HN: Unknown Pleasures, a tiny web experiment with WebGL"

quintussss — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 08:18:05 +0000

Very cool, great work.

New comment by quintussss in "Catch-23: The New C Standard Sets the World on Fire"

quintussss — Sun, 02 Apr 2023 09:42:50 +0000

I always wonder how much these new C standards use, as C is now mostly used in areas where one is severely limited when it comes to compiler choice. Where I work, we use GCC 6.2 and iso9899:1990 (C90). If we were able to use a modern compiler, we would probably just use C++.

New comment by quintussss in "Flying Planes with Python and JavaScript"

quintussss — Mon, 20 Feb 2023 07:07:44 +0000

Looks very interesting, the autopilot code looks especially interesting to me.

Microsoft wants you to pay for video codecs

quintussss — Sat, 18 Feb 2023 21:27:51 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/jakobmaier_/status/1627057020888309760

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34851286

Points: 6

# Comments: 3

New comment by quintussss in "Xerox copier flaw changes numbers in scanned docs (2013)"

quintussss — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 07:16:20 +0000

there is a great talk about this from the guy that found it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FeqF1-Z1g0

it's in german though...

New comment by quintussss in "Simple Physics-based Flight Simulation with C++"

quintussss — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 07:46:21 +0000

You are right, the ailerons are really in front of the wings, which if of course wrong. I will update this and add some info on the coordinate system!

New comment by quintussss in "Simple Physics-based Flight Simulation with C++"

quintussss — Sun, 12 Feb 2023 09:46:54 +0000

How to create simple but realistic looking flight simulation from scratch with C++.

Simple Physics-based Flight Simulation with C++

quintussss — Sun, 12 Feb 2023 09:46:54 +0000

Article URL: https://www.jakobmaier.at/posts/flight-simulation/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34761502

Points: 163

# Comments: 17

New comment by quintussss in "Show HN: A version control system based on rsync"

quintussss — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 12:53:35 +0000

Would be nice if you could talk about the problems you had with git and how jamsync solves them.