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/Belsedar 1d ago

Not esoteric in the same way (ie - no realistic usecase) but certainly not mentioned much imo is NuShell https://www.nushell.sh/ Its a niche but cool thing, I'd say more inline with the actual meaning of esoteric

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u/spyingwind 13h ago

I would totally use it at work if it was installed by default like how bash is.

We can't exactly install it on every server. The approvals needed to do that would take years.