Writing a Shell in Go, Advice

Question

I like Go, and I'm thinking about writing a shell in it, but I'm not sure how well Go's runtime will play with fork and exec (probably not well). Any advice?

h4ck_th3_pl4n3t · Accepted Answer

Take a look at yaegi, it already can be used and embedded as a REPL and shell. [1][1] https://github.com/traefik/yaegi

evnix · Answer

I think it does it very well.Had some recent experience trying to write a shell and have it exposed over the web using websockets.There are some parts where you wish it behaved like C but it does the job and is more than sufficient for a shell.

Writing a Shell in Go, Advice

I like Go, and I'm thinking about writing a shell in it, but I'm not sure how well Go's runtime will play with fork and exec (probably not well). Any advice?

Take a look at yaegi, it already can be used and embedded as a REPL and shell. [1]
[1] https://github.com/traefik/yaegi

I think it does it very well.
Had some recent experience trying to write a shell and have it exposed over the web using websockets.
There are some parts where you wish it behaved like C but it does the job and is more than sufficient for a shell.