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A little personal color: I’m kind of a terminal tweak-fanatic but I’ve stuck with bash. Ten years or so ago the cool kids were using zsh: which is in general a

A little personal color: I’m kind of a terminal tweak-fanatic but I’ve stuck with bash. Ten years or so ago the cool kids were using zsh: which is in general a pretty reasonable move, it’s got way more command-line amenities than bash (at least built in). Today fish is the fucking business: fish is so much more fun as a CLI freak. But I guess I’ve got enough PTSD around when k8s or it’s proprietary equivalents get stuck that I always wanted to be not only functional but fast in outage-type scenarios that I kept bash as a daily driver. Writing shell scripts of any kind is godawful, the equivalent python is the code you want to own, but it’s universality is a real selling point, like why I keep half an eye on Perl5 even though I loathe it: it may suck but it’s always there when the klaxon is going off. The best possible software is useless if it’s not installed.

Beltalowda 4y ago
I personally really dislike fish as an interactive shell as it's just so busy. Things keep popping up, everything is in so many different colours, etc. It's great if you like that sort of stuff, but I really appreciate a "quiet" environment. This is also why I use Vim: all the IDEs I tried are just so "busy". I was only talking about scripting; I know fish scripting is different, but I have no idea if it's any good. For interactive shells I don't care what people use: it's 100% a personal choice.
- monknomo 4y ago
  if you want `fish_config` opens up an easy editor for changing all the colors to whatever you find quiet and soothing. You have a level of control over things popping up too
  - Beltalowda 4y ago
    Quite a few things can't be disabled; for example AFAIK it doesn't offer a way to disable the autocomplete altogether, or the "fuzzy" matching. I really dislike these things. Fish is a great shell, but very opinionated which is great if your preferences align with that, and not-so-great if they don't. Which is fine because it makes the project better for those who do want these things, and not every project needs to cater to everyone.
    - travisjungroth 4y ago
      This comment is so reasonable I’m getting a contact high of pragmatism.

Beltalowda 4y ago

I personally really dislike fish as an interactive shell as it's just so busy. Things keep popping up, everything is in so many different colours, etc. It's great if you like that sort of stuff, but I really appreciate a "quiet" environment. This is also why I use Vim: all the IDEs I tried are just so "busy". I was only talking about scripting; I know fish scripting is different, but I have no idea if it's any good. For interactive shells I don't care what people use: it's 100% a personal choice.

monknomo 4y ago
if you want `fish_config` opens up an easy editor for changing all the colors to whatever you find quiet and soothing. You have a level of control over things popping up too
- Beltalowda 4y ago
  Quite a few things can't be disabled; for example AFAIK it doesn't offer a way to disable the autocomplete altogether, or the "fuzzy" matching. I really dislike these things. Fish is a great shell, but very opinionated which is great if your preferences align with that, and not-so-great if they don't. Which is fine because it makes the project better for those who do want these things, and not every project needs to cater to everyone.
  - travisjungroth 4y ago
    This comment is so reasonable I’m getting a contact high of pragmatism.