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Fish shell's joke tagline is "Finally, a command line shell for the 90s". I believe that the developer experience for all sorts of tooling has improved dramati
by rgoulter 5y ago
Fish shell's joke tagline is "Finally, a command line shell for the 90s".
I believe that the developer experience for all sorts of tooling has improved dramatically over the last 15 years or so, coinciding with GitHub's rise in popularity.
e.g. the plugin ecosystem for Vim or Emacs have improved, let alone options like VSCode. Tools like Vagrant made it easier to work with VMs. Containerised workflows have similarly improved some cases. Languages like Go-lang or Rust seem pretty nice in some cases. etc.
Shells are also the kind of thing that developers use. I don't believe bash is the best we can practically get. -- Though.. I have heard of other, fancier shells; (or cool ideas like https://ambrevar.xyz/lisp-repl-shell/ https://ambrevar.xyz/lisp-repl-shell/ or http://howardism.org/Technical/Emacs/literate-devops.html http://howardism.org/Technical/Emacs/literate-devops.html). These haven't caught on.
- bradknowles 5y agoI don’t even see the need for fish or zsh. Bash is fine for me, and I just don’t see the point. Sure, if you want to use something else, you should feel free to knock yourself out. I do kinda wish I could filter out all the articles about other shells, though. They seem like a bit of wasted space to me.