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Is this like a competitor for power10k type stuff and zsh? What makes this "infinitely customizable" aside from being turing complete? I don't see anything bu

Is this like a competitor for power10k type stuff and zsh? What makes this "infinitely customizable" aside from being turing complete? I don't see anything but ... a prompt.

retrochameleon 3y ago
Maybe read through the documentation and try it out. It has very robust configuration options, many pre-built modules that are ready to include in your prompt, for example, one that prints git info for the current location if it's a repository. So yes, it is kind of a competitor to p10k, but not zsh. It's just the prompt, and it just focuses on being a very good prompt tool.
- imp0cat 3y ago
  Yeah, it's just a prompt replacement that does all the things that your prompt already does, but it's written in Rust.
  - emi2k01 3y ago
    "it's just..." is kinda demeaning. People want something easy to use with good defaults. If that wasn't the case, shells wouldn't have a hundreds of plugins dedicated to customizing the prompt.
  - mort96 3y ago
    Have you tried writing a PS1 which shows all the info that's demonstrated on the linked page? I have. It's a decent chunk of work. It's a whole lot more work to do it well. Did you remember to handle the situation where the git repo is so gigantic that running `git status` takes half a minute? Or the case where there is a .git folder somewhere but permissions are wrong or it crosses a mount barrier so `git status` prints a page of text to stderr? Does the way you're finding the current branch handle the case where HEAD doesn't point to a branch? The only way your prompt "already does" this stuff is if you've spent a whole lot of time configuring it and tuning it, or if you're already using something like oh-my-zsh. And if you're already using something like oh-my-zsh, well, starship is just a competitor to (the prompt portion of) that.
    - imp0cat 3y ago
      It's a decent chunk of work. It's a whole lot more work to do it well. There's no doubt about that. You might even learn a thing or two about your shell in the process. Is that considered a bad thing nowadays?
elcombato 3y ago
this is a visual performance comparison between spaceship and p10k: https://asciinema.org/a/253094 https://asciinema.org/a/253094

Is this like a competitor for power10k type stuff and zsh? What makes this "infinitely customizable" aside from being turing complete? I don't see anything but ... a prompt.

retrochameleon 3y ago

Maybe read through the documentation and try it out. It has very robust configuration options, many pre-built modules that are ready to include in your prompt, for example, one that prints git info for the current location if it's a repository. So yes, it is kind of a competitor to p10k, but not zsh. It's just the prompt, and it just focuses on being a very good prompt tool.

imp0cat 3y ago
Yeah, it's just a prompt replacement that does all the things that your prompt already does, but it's written in Rust.
- emi2k01 3y ago
  "it's just..." is kinda demeaning. People want something easy to use with good defaults. If that wasn't the case, shells wouldn't have a hundreds of plugins dedicated to customizing the prompt.
- mort96 3y ago
  Have you tried writing a PS1 which shows all the info that's demonstrated on the linked page? I have. It's a decent chunk of work. It's a whole lot more work to do it well. Did you remember to handle the situation where the git repo is so gigantic that running `git status` takes half a minute? Or the case where there is a .git folder somewhere but permissions are wrong or it crosses a mount barrier so `git status` prints a page of text to stderr? Does the way you're finding the current branch handle the case where HEAD doesn't point to a branch? The only way your prompt "already does" this stuff is if you've spent a whole lot of time configuring it and tuning it, or if you're already using something like oh-my-zsh. And if you're already using something like oh-my-zsh, well, starship is just a competitor to (the prompt portion of) that.
  - imp0cat 3y ago
    It's a decent chunk of work. It's a whole lot more work to do it well. There's no doubt about that. You might even learn a thing or two about your shell in the process. Is that considered a bad thing nowadays?

elcombato 3y ago

this is a visual performance comparison between spaceship and p10k: https://asciinema.org/a/253094 https://asciinema.org/a/253094