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I used fish for two years or so, and recently switched back to zsh, mainly because Fish is too slow to load, and this is not something the developers are willin

I used fish for two years or so, and recently switched back to zsh, mainly because Fish is too slow to load, and this is not something the developers are willing to fix. The problem I had was that I needed to load a “bare” shell, without plugins or anything else, but this is not functionality fish provides, and judging from the developers’ comments something they are not going to. So I spent a day migrating my fish config to zsh, and am much happier now.

gpanders 6y ago
This is interesting as I had the exact opposite experience. Fish is screaming fast for me compared to zsh, primarily because I don’t need to use any plugins to achieve all of the functionality that I needed to use many plugins to achieve in zsh. The totality of my fish config files, not including functions, is maybe a couple dozen lines [1]. Regarding a bare shell: perhaps I’m not understanding your exact needs, but fish is able to check whether or not it’s being used interactively with `status is-interactive`, so you could certainly try wrapping all of the plug-in loading machinery around a guard like this. [1]: https://git.sr.ht/~gpanders/dotfiles/tree/master/item/.config/fish https://git.sr.ht/~gpanders/dotfiles/tree/master/item/.confi...