I think you can achieve most of the fish features in zsh with the help of plugins. The most compelling feature of fish was history substring search. You type so

I think you can achieve most of the fish features in zsh with the help of plugins. The most compelling feature of fish was history substring search. You type something, press up button and you get a command in history with that substring. I used 'history-substring-search' plugin to achieve that. There are also 'syntax-highlighting' and 'completion' plugins which bring fish shell features to zsh. I use prezto for its speed after getting annoyed by oh-my-zsh slowness.