Use zsh as the default shell on your Mac
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Use zsh as the default shell on your Mac
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Re: Use zsh as the default shell on your Mac
#2I'm really surprised they went with zsh rather than fish. I guess they want to preserve the ability for existing `source` scripts to work.
Re: Use zsh as the default shell on your Mac
#3It's probably because the default bash is a very ancient version before FSF transitioned to GPLv3. That said, I've been using zsh for a long time and this is a great change.
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#4I'm really surprised they went with zsh rather than fish. I guess they want to preserve the ability for existing `source` scripts to work.
Why would they use fish? Fish is nice and all, but zsh is a much more mainstream shell.
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#5Guess they had to go somewhere as Apple's unwillingness to have GPLv3 code effectively killed off bash updates.
Slightly disappointed, but guess they had to go somewhere and zsh is going to be well supported going forward
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#6I'm really surprised they went with zsh rather than fish. I guess they want to preserve the ability for existing `source` scripts to work.
It's really annoying to have to learn new language when zsh is so similar to bash.
Re: Use zsh as the default shell on your Mac
#7I'm really surprised they went with zsh rather than fish. I guess they want to preserve the ability for existing `source` scripts to work.
Why would they use fish? Fish is nice and all, but zsh is a much more mainstream shell.
Since when is mainstream better? Why did they choose zsh? They don't justify that either. It's just odd to pick one post-bash shell but not the other when they have very similar feature sets—autocomplete, persistent global variables, attention to end-user quality.
EDIT: apparently zsh doesn't have persistent or global variables, my bad.
Re: Use zsh as the default shell on your Mac
#8I'm really surprised they went with zsh rather than fish. I guess they want to preserve the ability for existing `source` scripts to work.
It's really annoying to have to learn new language when zsh is so similar to bash.
It's really annoying to learn bash, so I don't see how that works in zsh's favor.
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#9Re: Use zsh as the default shell on your Mac
#10Finally!
Though I will say I’m surprised. I’ve opened a radar suggesting this change and it was closed with (paraphrasing) “won’t do it as the user can easily change the shell, I myself do it”.