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Re: Nushell: Introduction to a new kind of shell

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Post by jamincan »

_dhruva wrote: post #6

I thought the original Nushell was written by Jonathan Turner. Is this different? Some attribution in the article would help. (Thanks for pointing, there are links to original in the article) https://www.nushell.sh/

I get the impression that she packaged it for OpenBSD and wrote this as an intro to the shell for others. The 'written by Solene' bit reads initially as though she's claiming to have written Nushell, but when reading the text, it's pretty clear she didn't:

> With nushell, it feels like I finally have a better tool to create more reliable, robust, portable and faster command pipelines. The learning curve didn't feel too hard, but maybe it's because I'm already used to functional programming.

Re: Nushell: Introduction to a new kind of shell

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Post by wodenokoto »

_dhruva wrote: post #6

I thought the original Nushell was written by Jonathan Turner. Is this different? Some attribution in the article would help. (Thanks for pointing, there are links to original in the article) https://www.nushell.sh/

> I packaged it for OpenBSD, so it's available on -current (and will be in releases after 7.3 is out), the port could be used on 7.2 with no effort.

I think this is what makes it sound like the author of the article is the author of nushell. My first reading led me to believe the same, but she is "only" responsible for the OpenBSD package.

Re: Nushell: Introduction to a new kind of shell

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Post by cyber_kinetist »

I use it as my primary driver, for the sole reason is that it's the only cross-platform shell that properly supports Windows (without resorting to Cygwin/MSYS, which has performance issues and many pain points). I'm still getting used to the syntax though...

(Edit: forgot to mention Powershell, since nowadays it also works on Macs and Linux)

Re: Nushell: Introduction to a new kind of shell

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Post by actually_a_dog »

cyber_kinetist wrote: post #16

I use it as my primary driver, for the sole reason is that it's the only cross-platform shell that properly supports Windows (without resorting to Cygwin/MSYS, which has performance issues and many pain points). I'm still getting used to the syntax though... (Edit: forgot to mention Powershell, since nowadays it also works on Macs and Linux)

I'm curious what you mean by "properly supports Windows." Are you on a version of Windows that supports WSL2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux)?

Re: Nushell: Introduction to a new kind of shell

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Post by pletnes »

cyber_kinetist wrote: post #16

I use it as my primary driver, for the sole reason is that it's the only cross-platform shell that properly supports Windows (without resorting to Cygwin/MSYS, which has performance issues and many pain points). I'm still getting used to the syntax though... (Edit: forgot to mention Powershell, since nowadays it also works on Macs and Linux)

Doesn’t xonsh run correctly on windows? I used it but hated the environment due to the lack of utilities on windows (it’s just a shell, not an environment).

Re: Nushell: Introduction to a new kind of shell

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Post by pletnes »

actually_a_dog wrote: post #17
cyber_kinetist wrote: post #16

I use it as my primary driver, for the sole reason is that it's the only cross-platform shell that properly supports Windows (without resorting to Cygwin/MSYS, which has performance issues and many pain points). I'm still getting used to the syntax though... (Edit: forgot to mention Powershell, since nowadays it also works on Macs and Linux)

I'm curious what you mean by "properly supports Windows." Are you on a version of Windows that supports WSL2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux)?

WSL is great but it’s basically a convenient VM. It’s no longer windows, as far as I’m concerned.
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