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They should adopt Nushell! It would be seen as very "Apple"- a brave great somewhat non interoperable user experience upgrade

• adamnemecek 20d ago
  I was a big fan of Nushell for some time but has the same problems as unix shells. I have this CLI tool that manages a lot of things for me (a big one is downloading and cataloging arxiv papers, it downloads them and tags them with metadata and gives each PDF a proper filename based on the author's name and publication year). I tried building this in Nushell but it became eventually so painful.
  • bbkane 19d ago
    I'm sorry, what are the same problems you're referring to? I ended up leaving because: - it was unstable and kept changing (less of an issue now) - I still need to know bash due to its ubiquity - it was worse than python for data crunching scripts (ide tooling + my familiarity) This was several years ago so I'm curious about a more recent perspective
    • adamnemecek 19d ago
      There is some unstability yes. For me the larger problems were the lack of types which in practice meant that I was running into the same problems as with bash.
      • bbkane 19d ago
        Nushell does have types: https://www.nushell.sh/book/types_of_data.html https://www.nushell.sh/book/types_of_data.html
        • adamnemecek 18d ago
          Support for custom types is not there.
          • bbkane 17d ago
            Oh you mean algebraic types (Elm terminology)? Or the newtype pattern? Or something else?