I made the mistake last year of falling in love with xs-shell https://github.com/TieDyedDevil/XS, talking to its maintainer (who recently put xs out to pasture, as it were) who is now moving all his stuff to es-shell, switching my romance to es-shell https://wryun.github.io/es-shell/, merging in 2 forks of it to my own version https://github.com/pmarreck/es-shell/ aaaand having a kid and basically running out of time.

This shell makes a ton more sense to my brain than the usual bash/zsh/fish rigmarole, it just needs some love. It's older, but basically much smarter.

The last thing I was working on was a way to capture all of stdout, stderr and return code from a single run of a command, for testing purposes, because the OTHER thing es-shell desperately needs is a proper test suite, and being able to assert on all/any of those side-effects (and the return value) is IMHO fundamental to a proper suite. I figured one out for bash https://github.com/pmarreck/tinytestlib but not one for es yet.

Sorry for hijacking your comment