What is Reddit's opinion of dash?

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No, the goal of Dash is to be "as small as possible" and "POSIX compliant".

http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/dash/

Seriously Google, stop using names of programming languages that already exist. Though having a *nix shell embedded in every web browser would be pretty cool.

Change the name.

There is already a dash installed on every Ubuntu and Debian instance. Package: dash Version: 0.5.8-2 Essential: yes Installed-Size: 188 Maintainer: Gerrit Pape <[email protected]> Architecture: amd64 Depends: debianutils (>= 2.15), dpkg (>= 1.15.0) Pre-Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14) Description-en: POSIX-compliant shell The Debian Almquist Shell (dash) is a POSIX-compliant shell derived from ash. . Since it executes scripts faster than bash, and has fewer library dependencies (making it more robust against software or hardware failures), it is used as the default system shell on Debian systems. Description-md5: 8d4d9c32c6b2b70328f7f774a0cc1248 Homepage: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/dash/ Tag: implemented-in::c, interface::shell, role::program, scope::utility Section: shells Priority: required Filename: pool/main/d/dash/dash_0.5.8-2_amd64.deb Size: 109430 MD5sum: e5c29d6538226e869b8fa0f74f86ba3c SHA1: e79cbbfc8f9a64d31cff5289d88ef5ee55a98b8a

As others have mentioned dash is a decent lightweight shell in wide use on many Linux systems. Be sure to check out oksh too!