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A Tour of the Oil Project

There are many components.

The OSH Language is Compatible

TODO

The Oil Language is New

TODO

The Shell Runtime

TODO

Builtins are the "Standard Library"

Both shell builtins and functions.

Oil has less of this. The philosophy is to push more things outside, e.g. into a "distro".

The Interactive Shell, and "Headless Mode"

• Simple bash-like experience
• Defer most stuff to outside

mycpp and "Tea": Speeding Up the Executable Spec

This is under the hood, but important to understand.

Making the project faster.

• Translator
• Small runtime with garbage collector

Documentation (and the blog)

This is a big part of the project

Different kinds of docs:

• Preliminaries
  • This doc
  • Why Use Oil?
  • A Tour of the Oil Language
• Oil and OSH Help Topics (reference)
• Release Index: docs that are done
• Documentation Index
  • Command, Word, Expression, Runtime, Interchange Formats, etc.
  • Language design docs, dev docs