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Add to SafariWhen comparing DASH vs Pyret, the Slant community recommends Pyret for most people. In the question“What is the best programming language to learn first?” Pyret is ranked 50th while DASH is ranked 52nd. The most important reason people chose Pyret is:
You can use the development environment without installation in your browser and share your programs via the Google Drive integration.
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Pros
Pro Fast startup
Dash has a very fast startup, this happens because the shell is started a lot of times during boot and dash minimizes the work it does during this process.
Pro Low memory usage, which matters a lot in embedded
It is designed to be very lightweight and has no support for shell specific extensions that are not POSIX.
Pro Default shell on Debian systems
DASH is the default shell for Debian based systems due to it speed, full POSIX compliance and low overhead.
Pro Full POSIX support
It's fully POSIX compatible, so if your script runs on dash it will probably run on all other shells.
Pro A perfect clone
It's a clone of the original System V4 Bourne shell.
Pro Online IDE
You can use the development environment without installation in your browser and share your programs via the Google Drive integration.
Pro Designed for education
A primary goal of Pyret is to be an excellent choice for a first programming language. This heavily influences the development of the language. For example: if it's felt that some aspect of the language could be made better for the language's users, The development team won't hesitate about implementing breaking (non backwards compatible) changes into Pyret for the greater good of the language. This makes Pyret an impressively "wart free" programming language.
Cons
Con Doesn't support all bash features
Dash does not support all bash features, sometimes called 'bashisms' unless explicitly pointed at /bin/sh.
Con Missing IDE features
For example: content assist, go to declaration, etc.
