A command-line interface for a full screen architecture. Unix shell for iOS, with Vim, TeX, Python, Lua, C and C++ (using webAssembly) and many commands.
Joined October 2019
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A-Shell is currently available for beta-testing, with two big Python-related changes:
- Python moves from version 3.11 to 3.13
- adds support for scipy, sciait-learn, seaborn…
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It’s the stock iOS keyboard, the toolbar above it is part of @a_Shell_iOS, which is such a Swiss Army knife for me
Well, the good news is you don't have to wait for Apple to release it.
The bad news, of course, is that it won't be made by Apple, but by a small indie developer.
And now I have to get back to everyone who asked for h.265 encoding, to whom I replied: "I can't do it, libx265 is GPL", and update the reply with: "actually I did it, using libkvazaar, which is BSD-licensed" (thanks, guys).
Encode your videos with: "-c:v libkvazaar -tag:v hvc1".
Two big news today:
- a-Shell has reached one million installs (cumulated for both apps: 539k for a-Shell, 461k for a-Shell mini)
- we have a new version on the AppStore: 1.15.9
What's new: h.265 encoding for ffmpeg and HEIF decoding for ImageMagick, updated bc, plus bug fixes.
The changes also mean that ripgrep is now compatible with the Wasm3 engine. You'll have to reinstall it (pkg install rg), but once it's done, it's blazingly *fast*.
Sorry for this backward incompatibility, I'm trying really hard to avoid them but this one was just unavoidable. It reverts a bad decision I made 4 years ago.
On the plus side, a-Shell is now immune to the year 2038 bug.
Version 1.15.7 is out on the AppStore.
It fixes issues with the WebAssembly interpreters: how they scan directories, and how they set modification/acces dates.
The bad news is there's a backward incompatibility: if you installed zip or xz, you'll have to reinstall them.
Wasm3 was incorporated in a-Shell recently, resulting in a 10x speedup for some commands (xz, unzip).
It's an awesome piece of code, and the best WebAssembly interpreter I've tried.
I regret to inform the community that since my own house was destroyed by russians who invaded my country, Wasm3 has entered a minimal maintenance phase.
ALT At this time, I am unable to continue the development of new features. However, I am committed to keeping the project alive and will actively review and merge incoming Pull Requests. I deeply appreciate your understanding and support during this difficult period. Your contributions to Wasm3 are now more valuable than ever.
Welcome aboard, guys! Answers to your questions, if any, is available through this account, e-mail and Discord (type "help" for the address).
Depends on what you mean by IDE, what libraries you need and what connectivity you have. A-Shell focuses on being a local terminal, but the UI is rustic (CLI mostly, vim) and libraries are limited. If you need more, there are good ssh terminals (including a-Shell, too).
One specificity of iOS is that you cannot write in ~, only in ~/Documents/. So all configuration files have been moved there. Try editing ~/Documents/.vimrc or copying your .vim directory to ~/Documents (which is also the folder you see in the Files app).