clojureD 2020: "Shell Scripting Made Simple with Clojure" by Jakub Dundalek

The command-line shell is an essential part of a developer toolbox. Many of our production systems depend on it. Shell scripts are used to tie together deployments and orchestrate cloud systems. However, shells accumulated lots of incidental complexity. There are many dark corners that surprise even seasoned programmers.

Unix philosophy suggests writing scripts by composing smaller programs and piping plain text between them. In functional programming we compose functions and work with proper data structures, which is much more powerful.

In this talk I will explore how a shell combining best of Bash and Clojure could look like. I will introduce Closh, a unix shell written in Clojure. You will learn how to leverage expressive and well designed language like Clojure on the command-line and combine it with existing programs.

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