varlink and the elvish shell

Harald Hoyer February 22, 2018 #varlink #programming

I recently discovered Elvish, which is a shell perfectly suited to process structured data. In my case it is perfect to be used with varlink. Too bad elvish has no numeric type and can't feed varlink with int and float, because to-json converts them to strings.

To see what I mean, watch this video:

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