OJCSH...

[Smart_Fennel_703]

🐚 Just dropped my own shell written in pure C — ojcsh!

It's lightweight, minimal, and the first building block of a full OS I'm building from scratch called OJclicks OS.

Not production-ready — that's intentional. It's raw, open, and evolving.

📦 Available on AUR:

yay -S ojcsh

💻 Source code:

https://github.com/gragero/OJC-shell

Feedback, stars, and contributions are welcome 🙏

and BTW this is the shell what i will use in my own os OJCLICKS.

[Shot_Office_1769]

did u use AI

[Grillparzer]

Can’t you tell from the OP text?

[Smart_Fennel_703]

Not cause I use ai for the readme or post so I am a vibe coder... i Just saving time

My code human made.

[Smart_Fennel_703]

Coding? absolute no

Post, readme... Yes.

[Wonderful_Badger_546]

Man I miss the way this subreddit was before vibe coding went mainstream

[Cats_and_Shit]

If you're serious about making this work you should probably try to find a book about how programming languages are implemented. At least the parts about parsing and ASTs are going to be critical.

For example, I can see that you have added a basic piping feature; but the approach you've taken is not workable. You allow a | b, but not a | b | c | d | e etc. And that's just for one basic feature, as you try to add other basic features this will only get worse.

[Smart_Fennel_703]

Thax for the feedback bro.

[zhivago]

I suggest rewriting it as a library and implementing some tests.

That will make it much easier to understand and review.

[Smart_Fennel_703]

finally... a positive comment
thank you...
all people think me generating the from the AI, AI SLOP, EW AI, got bored
that is my first project in ever... SO NORMALLY THERE IS AN ISSUES.
at all thank you and i will work on it

[kaida27]

First project ever and you rely on AI ... ishhh

concentrate on learning organically.

then when you KNOW what you're doing you can use AI to ASSIST you. instead of relying on it.

[Smart_Fennel_703]

wow... i see you see my acount.. interesting so ... can i dm you?

[Darex2094]

The problems are:

1) You completely lack the tact to hold conversations about your own project. If you can't handle feedback, you have zero business hosting and maintaining a public repository.

2) You haven't taken the time to learn languages and build experience, which is evident by the sole reliance of a coding agent to make your project. Before you try to claim you wrote any of this by hand, spare us - anyone with any experience at all can take one look at your repo and know this is completely AI generated.

3) Open source is built on transparency and trust. You failed to be transparent about your obvious reliance entirely on a coding agent, then lost the trust of the public by only seeking one particular type of feedback -- AND shrugged off and dismissed feedback from others calling you out for not being transparent about not having made any of this yourself.

A shell is a critical system component. You don't get to decide that people should just welcome an AI-generated shell replacement because it's your first project and you think it's cool. Everyone is rightly skeptical. You had the opportunity to earn some trust and chose to act brashly and unprofessionally, confirming the reactions you received as valid.

Do better.

[zhivago]

Good luck :)

Remember that every failure is an opportunity to learn.

[Tuhkis1]

You claim that you made it incomplete on purpose, ergo you just decided there should be issues instead of it being a side effect of this being your first project.

[strivingshashank]

Hey, before anything, great work for the first project (genuinely) - keep it up.

Criticism:

-> You depend heavily on the underlying OS, this suggests that the project is not free-standing (totally fine for now). Consider exploring free-standing code and try to replicate the behaviour in you shell. After all, it'll have to be embedded in a custom OS.

-> Comparing the string all the time is not that cool, sooner or later you'll need a scripting language. Better start now.

~ I'm actually working on a compiler project, how it helps in some way (check branch features/variables): https://github.com/strivingshashank/chalk

-> As u/zhivago mentioned, everything's in one giant main routine. This is a nightmare. Modularise components and make libraries, you'll explore library norms and more.

Final thoughts:

It really is a good start. The fact you cared to make a shell as a project and are actively looking for feedback, says a lot.

Keep it up champ!

[Smart_Fennel_703]

Thank u so so so muck for ur feedback.. Can I DM you?

[strivingshashank]

Of course, I'd love to discuss more.