From the workshop

The Quirl blog

Notes from behindthe whisk.

How Quirl gets built, what changes, and why — written as it happens.

2026-08-24

A Shell With a Richer Vocabulary

See how Quirl moves from familiar commands to typed JSON, local AI suggestions, explicit Bash compatibility, and bounded Lua—without hiding the boundaries.

2026-08-24

How Quirl Came to Be

Nine days, three AI coding tools, and a few billion tokens later — the origin story of a Rust shell with typed pipelines and a sandboxed Lua runtime.