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POSIX compliance is a non-goal. Perhaps in the future, someone would be able to write a native plugin to support shell scripting (which would be against it’s main goal, but ….)</p><h2 id=windows-support>Windows Support?</h2><p>It compiles for Windows (CI ensures it does), but otherwise it is not directly supported. If you’d like to improve this situation, checkout <a href=https://github.com/Rosettea/Hilbish/discussions/165 target=_blank rel=noopener>the discussion</a> .</p><h2 id=where-is-the-api-documentation>Where is the API documentation?</h2><p>The builtin <code>doc</code> command supplies all documentation of Hilbish provided APIs. This will be on the website in the near future.</p><h2 id=why>Why?</h2><p>Hilbish emerged from the desire of a Lua configured shell. 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