metashell mit Homebrew installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Repository

Befehle und Aliase

• metashell
• templight_metashell

Projektgeschichte

The tool is tied to the mid-2010s wave of C++ metaprogramming tooling around Clang and Templight. Public Templight material names Abel Sinkovics and Andras Kucsma in connection with Metashell, and a Meeting C++ 2014 talk presented an interactive metaprogramming shell based on Clang. Metashell's own documentation says it uses Clang to evaluate metaprograms, while later discussion of Metashell 2.0.0 highlighted a GDB-like template metaprogram debugger.

Wie es verwendet wird

In practice, Metashell is used by C++ library authors and template-heavy codebases to experiment with types, evaluate metaprograms, and debug template instantiation flows. Boost.Metaparse documentation explicitly assumes Metashell can be used while building compile-time parsers, which places it in the same ecosystem as Boost.MPL, Metaparse, Clang, and Templight rather than in general-purpose C++ build tooling. The Homebrew package exposes both metashell and templight_metashell, matching that role as a specialist command-line tool for template metaprogramming work.

Quellen

• https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/metashell
• https://github.com/metashell/metashell
• https://lists.boost.org/archives/list/boost%40lists.boost.org/thread/HCSZTS5QAA5UK3JPUYACBMKDDSTGMSY6/
• https://llvm.org/devmtg/2015-04/slides/EuroLLVM2015Templight.pdf
• https://plc.inf.elte.hu/templight/
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/metashell/metashell/master/docs/index.md
• https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/latest/doc/html/metaparse/getting_started_with_boost_metap.html