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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?