Sploosh! Pipes, Pain, and the Surprisingly Pleasant Past
🛠️ SPLOOSH! Blog Post #3
“Pipes, Pain, and the Surprisingly Pleasant Past”
This week, SPLOOSH! graduated from “barely a pipe dream” to “fully piped up and passing tests.” That’s right: pipelines are in, and they actually work. Multiple commands, redirections, built-ins, the whole glorious mess—you name it, I piped it.
Was it smooth? No.
Was it fun? Also no.
Did it work eventually? Absolutely.
There was a particularly dark day when I stared into the abyss of ExecutePipelineWithNoBuiltins and it stared right back, whispering “deadlock…”. Turns out that launching processes in the wrong order is like trying to pass the baton in a relay race by throwing it backwards into a wind tunnel. Lesson learned.
But just as I crawled out of the trench with mud in my hair and MemoryStreams in my teeth, I turned to the history feature—and it was like flipping on easy mode.
Implementing command history was a breath of fresh air:
- Arrow key navigation? ✔️
- Typing
historyto see my past mistakes? ✔️ - Repeating said mistakes with a single keypress? ✔️
It worked the first time. Which is suspicious, and probably means there’s a cursed while (true) loop hidden somewhere, but I’m not going to look at it. Not today.
So now, SPLOOSH! is no longer just a shell. It remembers.
It evolves.
It even passes tests.
Stay tuned for my next adventure: either job control, signal handling… or something weird like scripting support, depending on how much coffee I drink.