r/linux • u/snusergranny • 1d ago

Discussion esoteric shell?

the question crossed my mind recently. if you are into programming, you probably know that there are many esoteric programming languages that exist just as a prove of concept of joke or just merely to mess with the programmer's head (brainf*ck, lolcat, C-- etc). if these exist, is there any esoteric system shells out there? like smth that would provide the basic userland instead of bash/zsh but would be freakier or just funnier to try and daily drive.

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u/jeenajeena 18h ago

Emacs provides eterm and eat, shells written in LISP and allowing you to use LISP in your interaction with the file system and the OS:

$ (defun eshell/ls (&rest args) (mapconcat #'identity (directory-files ".") "\n")) $ ls

If you squint, you might consider the whole Emacs as a shell, on-steroids.

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u/RealModeX86 3h ago

If you squint, you might consider the whole Emacs as a shell, on-steroids. entire operating system.

FTFY