Minixonsh

Minixonsh is a subset of Xonsh, that can be fully parsed and compiled ahead of time, implemented in C++, with no Python dependency.

Minixonsh is in development (pre-alpha) stage.

Initially we aim to achieve the following goals:

• Very fast to start, compile and execute
• Ability to run both scripts and have an interactive prompt
• Runs natively on Linux, macOS, Windows (distribute as a single binary)
• Calling programs
• If statements
• Environment variables (including $PATH)

Down the road we would like to implement:

• Larger subset of Python and Xonsh that can be statically compiled (such as xonsh.lib.os.rmtree)
• Ability to have multiple backends that any minixonsh script could be compiled to, such as: binary (using LLVM), Bash, Windows Batch, C, C++, Python, etc.

Build and Test

Build and test:

cmake .
make
ctest

Run a single test manually:

./minixonsh tests/test1.xsh