Jitzu
My PowerShell Killer
Details
- External ID
- 47053755
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Jitzu
- Website domain
- jitzu.dev
- Launched
- Feb. 17, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 6
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.28099730458221023
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
Born out of my frustration with powershell’s slow startup and confusing syntax I have long wanted to build a shell and scripting language in .NET. I have been working on it for a long time and thanks to Claude, I was able to finally get it over the line. I daily drive it as my shell on Windows, and really happy with it so far.Please try it and let me know where it can improve!
Enrichment
- Theme
- Claude integrations and coding agents
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- powershell replacement
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial A basic CLI wrapper or scripting language can be guided by AI, but building a fully featured, high-performance interactive shell with custom typing, job control, and terminal emulation in .NET is non-trivial.
What it would actually take: The architecture requires a lexer, parser, type checker, and bytecode/interpreter compiler in .NET, along with a custom Read-Eval-Print Loop (REPL) handling VT100 ANSI sequences, autocompletion, and syntax highlighting. The hard parts are OS process management (pipes, redirection, signals, and background/foreground job control across Windows and POSIX) and typed pipeline semantics. This requires solid expertise in compiler construction and cross-platform operating system internals.
Discussion
2 comments analyzed.
Feature requests: Work with existing shell environments
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 107 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #86 of 108 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 109 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Mach · hn · 2026-06-08 · 32 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Executable Markdown files with Unix pipes · hn · 2026-01-09 · 126 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Claude Code rewritten as a bash script · hn · 2026-03-31 · 62 upvotes · similarity 0.41
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