Suggestion: structured commands with renderers about closh HOT 3 OPEN

Another project I discovered recently is https://github.com/kellyjonbrazil/jc which parses output of many commands into JSON, which could be very useful. With it we could get the command output as data and try those data-driven UI experiments.

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Hey Mauricio, this is something I am very interested in. I showed a possible workflow in my clojureD talk last year. For the demo I created a simple wrapper for builtins from Nushell. It would be great to have Clojure implementation for these, because it could become even more powerful than what Nushell has. I did not find time to work on this yet, so I would be very glad if you are interested to work on this.

I think these implementations could live as separate libraries and then we would just make a tight integration with closh. The reason for separate libraries is to make them also usable in tools like Reveal and Portal which are also very cool. I follow their work and am excited what they will come up with. I think there will be definitely opportunities for synergies. (BTW it would be super cool to try to run closh inside Reveal/Portal to leverage them for showing structured output.)

Some other notes:

• We can bind commands with (defcmd ls some-lib/ls) where some-lib/ls is a plain function. That way one can type just ls instead of (ls).
• Besides render function the commands should also provide default print function. ls alone would render the UI. But when used in pipeline it would get printed as string/lines so that you could pipe it to unix commands like ls | sed ....
• We should try to used datafy+nav whenever possible. That way if you list files you could for example navigate down into directories.

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Great idea Mauricio!

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