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Mosh: The Mobile Shell

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Re: Mosh: The Mobile Shell

#11
post #4

Note that Mosh has not had release for 4 years, even when pull requests are accepted on github, and the team lead says "we are too busy/burned out". https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/issues/1115

why hasn't someone just forked it and make a "mosh-alt"? seems like the most logical step to me.

Re: Mosh: The Mobile Shell

#12
post #4

Note that Mosh has not had release for 4 years, even when pull requests are accepted on github, and the team lead says "we are too busy/burned out". https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/issues/1115

i didn't know that, and that bums me out. is what's there good enough to not care that there aren't frequent updates?

Re: Mosh: The Mobile Shell

#13
I always want to try alternative shells but I always come back to bash. I think Fish had the longest residency. I have yet to find the killer reason to never come back.

It’s a bit like programming languages. So much cool stuff out there but it’s hard for me to leave Python. Like Bash, everything works with it.

I’m curious what people’s “killer apps” are for permanently changing shells.

Re: Mosh: The Mobile Shell

#14

I always want to try alternative shells but I always come back to bash. I think Fish had the longest residency. I have yet to find the killer reason to never come back. It’s a bit like programming languages. So much cool stuff out there but it’s hard for me to leave Python. Like Bash, everything works with it. I’m curious what people’s “killer apps” are for permanently changing shells.

mosh isn't an alternative shell, it's sort of like "rsh" or "ssh" except designed for mobile... and using SSH for authentication and session setup.

Re: Mosh: The Mobile Shell

#15
post #11
post #4

Note that Mosh has not had release for 4 years, even when pull requests are accepted on github, and the team lead says "we are too busy/burned out". https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/issues/1115

why hasn't someone just forked it and make a "mosh-alt"? seems like the most logical step to me.

There is 600 forks on github.

Re: Mosh: The Mobile Shell

#16

I always want to try alternative shells but I always come back to bash. I think Fish had the longest residency. I have yet to find the killer reason to never come back. It’s a bit like programming languages. So much cool stuff out there but it’s hard for me to leave Python. Like Bash, everything works with it. I’m curious what people’s “killer apps” are for permanently changing shells.

I have this same problem. I’ve tried fish and zsh but all my scripts are in bash and over the years I’ve honed an environment I can just git clone to any Linux machine and it works

Re: Mosh: The Mobile Shell

#17
post #12
post #4

Note that Mosh has not had release for 4 years, even when pull requests are accepted on github, and the team lead says "we are too busy/burned out". https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/issues/1115

i didn't know that, and that bums me out. is what's there good enough to not care that there aren't frequent updates?

Certainly for me it's been good enough, I use it daily and haven't run into any issues.

I know people mention there are issues with some Unicode characters. Somehow I've never hit those issues, so I'm happy.

Re: Mosh: The Mobile Shell

#18
post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

why hasn't someone just forked it and make a "mosh-alt"? seems like the most logical step to me.

There is 600 forks on github.

How many of these 600 forks have unique code i.e. aren't just snapshots of the canonical repository? A lot of people use the fork button as a way of bookmarking or mirroring in case the canonical repo disappears.
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