fish-shell 4.0b1, now in Rust
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A smart and user-friendly command line shell
  • trevorEnglish
    28•1 month ago

    I’ve been running fish from the development branch for about a year, and I’m happy to say that nothing about it feels like it’s beta. It’s rock-solid (IMO) and my favorite shell 🐟

    • @[email protected]
      9•1 month ago

      Fish is a surprisingly good shell.

      It’s not POSIX compatible, but I don’t really care, it only executes its own scripts / functions. It’s not as innovative as elvish or nu, but it kind of does everything very conveniently and shell-y for lack of a better word – and it always seems so simple. It seems conservative in design, but the old concepts have been evolved in a very usable way. Something I can’t say for all the other shells I’ve tried – at some point, it always gets awkward where fish is just elegant.

      • @[email protected]
        1•24 days ago

        I don’t know elvish, but I can’t get into nu. It is too different than what I learned (bash). I’m not sure I understand what they want to accomplish… Maybe I’m not the target, I use the shell to start commands as a dev, not as a devops or data guy…

        I also had a hard time using fish the first time I tried it. But since the version on Debian 10 I re-tried and now the only thing to know is “put the arguments in quotes if you want the command to do globbing”. With that you can use 99% of the commands you find on internet as is.

  • thedæmonEnglish
    -31•1 month ago

    Ruining another software, thanks for the warning.

      • @[email protected]
        4•29 days ago

        More and more I’ve seen these contextless comments. It’s really odd. Do people just expect us to know what they’re thinking?

        • @[email protected]
          3•24 days ago

          I think some peoples developped an allergy to projects being (re-)written in rust. Not sure why.