Shill: Scripting with Least Privilege

http://shill.seas.harvard.edu/

by luu • 11 years ago

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ORioN63• 11 years ago

I believe that a new shell language is coming to replace bash.

Shill has this great, really amazing feature of handicapping the script's privilege.

I hope that if this language comes, this feature would be on it.

cogburnd02• 11 years ago

I believe that a new shell language is coming to replace bash.

There exist zsh and fish, but they don't replace bash for exactly one reason:

Noone is willing to go through all the shell scripts [other people have written] in their system and rewrite them in the new language.

Will shill be any different? Only time will tell.

ketralnis2• 11 years ago

Noone is willing to go through all the shell scripts [other people have written] in their system and rewrite them in the new language

Why is that a requirement at all?

thinkmoore3• 11 years ago

I'm one of the developers. Happy to answer questions.

GnarlinBrando• 11 years ago

I've seen a few posts by people saying that the name and language on your page remind them too much of some of the current flame wars. I personally don't care, but were you all aware? Why the name shill?

thinkmoore3• 11 years ago

I'm not sure what flame wars you're referring to.

We picked the name Shill because it sounds a lot like shell, but is a bit of an in-joke because it is built on Racket, which is a descendant of Scheme. All three have slightly negative connotations: schemers, racketeers, shills.

dmix• 11 years ago

It there a 'quick-start' guide or getting started tutorial anywhere?

I'm really interested in using Shill but all of the instructions I've found in the past is either the whitepaper or man-page style documentation. It seems to be missing the human-friendly first time guide as you find on most modern language sites like Go/Rust/Ruby. For ex: https://golang.org/doc/code.html

thinkmoore3• 11 years ago

Thanks for the suggestion! I'll try and get something similar added to the admittedly minimal documentation on the website.

Shill: Scripting with Least Privilege

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