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Anyone know of a good comparison between the different shells?

• RobertMiller 5y ago
  There are several feature comparison tables for numerous shells here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_command_shells https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_command_shells
• ducktective 5y ago
  Here is my TLDR: Writing scripts: #!/usr/bin/env bash (or #!/usr/bin/env sh for POSIX-compliance) Use fish for interactive shell. It's faster than zsh Zsh seem to have more plugins
  • eddyg 5y ago
    In what ways is fish faster than zsh? I can be believe it’s faster than a poorly configured zsh (which unfortunately is quite common), but would be curious to see actual test results, with things like “input lag”, “time to first prompt”, “command lag”, etc. like is measured with the excellent zsh-bench (https://github.com/romkatv/zsh-bench#what-it-measures https://github.com/romkatv/zsh-bench#what-it-measures)
    • ducktective 5y ago
      I've never tried zsh. I remember reading in the interwebz that if you go towards feature-parity with fish in a zsh setup, the latencies here and there, adds up and makes it slower than fish. Here is a relevant blog post: https://carlosbecker.com/posts/fish/ https://carlosbecker.com/posts/fish/ But yeah, I don't have any proofs.
      • eddyg 5y ago
        Yeah, that blog post is doing exactly what https://github.com/romkatv/zsh-bench#how-not-to-benchmark https://github.com/romkatv/zsh-bench#how-not-to-benchmark says not to do...