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It's puzzling to me that people still think of zsh as "that newfangled shell I'm not sure about yet". Bash came out in 1989. Zsh came out in 1990.
by dmd 4y ago
It's puzzling to me that people still think of zsh as "that newfangled shell I'm not sure about yet".
Bash came out in 1989.
Zsh came out in 1990.
- __del__ 4y agoi use zsh, but i often invoke bash just to make sure some behavior is "normal" rather than zsh-specific, or specific to how i wrote my .zshrc last decade [and haven't changed]. i don't think it's about the newfangledness; i think it's about the potential for subtle differences in syntax which scare people away from zsh.
- Beltalowda 4y agoI think the initial setup can be quite daunting; unlike bash, which never seemed to have moved beyond 1990, zsh added a lot of features, many of which are very useful (some of which less so, like csh-compatibility things) but there's a lot of it, and the defaults are somewhat bare-bones. Hence things like oh-my-zsh, which is quite intimidating in its own way. The fish shell "fixed" a lot of that by adding more or less the same feature-set as zsh but without the extensive configurability, which is a really great trade-off if the fish defaults work well for you (they don't for me personally though).