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Re:Fishshell rewrite-it-in Rust progress: 100% by btreecat on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @08:29AM (#39013037)
Love fish, it's my default shell on my machine where I have a UI, Linux or OSX.

I do wish there was better bash compatibility though, it keeps me from using fish on remote hosts, and some of my work tools are not fish compatible. I usually just switch to bash for a bit, but then I don't have my normal completion, history, git branch identification etc that comes out of the box with fish.

I'm a huge fan of sane defaults. Fish strikes a great balance here where I feel zsh requires a larger minimum amount of effort to be comfortable.

Re:Fishshell rewrite-it-in Rust progress: 100% by xigoi on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @01:23PM (#39016667)
Bash compatibility and sane defaults are contradictory goals.
Re:Fishshell rewrite-it-in Rust progress: 100% by stonecharioteer on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @01:29PM (#39016777)
I use fish, have been for 6 years now? I always default to bash for work scripts and nowadays use justfiles to bring them together. I don't like using fish for scripting, that's what bash is for.