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Ask HN: Are alternative (oil, nu, etc.) shells usable as daily drivers?

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Post by oblio »

Hello folks,

People using alternative shells (oil shell, nu shell, etc) as daily drivers, how is your daily experience?

I'm talking about a professional work experience, i.e. you use the shell as your daily driver at your workplace, not just for playing around.

Fish is probably usable, but outside of fish, is there any other production-ready alternative shell?

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Post by SomeoneOnTheWeb »

I personally use ZSH with Prezto, which makes it considerably better than vanilla ZSH. I've tried Nushell and it seems to work quite fine but it's really a different paradigm that makes you think of the data differently than *sh shells.

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Post by bilekas »

Bit of a strange one maybe but for my windows machine I've actually been using cmder (conEmu) with ZSH and over the past few years have been extending it with plugins to suit just right.

It's super fast supports everything I need now and couldn't work without it.

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Post by raydiatian »

SomeoneOnTheWeb wrote: post #2

I personally use ZSH with Prezto, which makes it considerably better than vanilla ZSH. I've tried Nushell and it seems to work quite fine but it's really a different paradigm that makes you think of the data differently than *sh shells.

Yeah, I am really excited about Nu as a concept, but I think adoption needs to happen first, where enough people are saying “alright, screw bash script flavors”. I’d feel silly deploying it in a production workload.

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Post by voxadam »

I'm a Linux native guy and I haven't hardly touched Windows in years but I still find myself curious about PowerShell. Is PowerShell even remotely suitable as a Linux shell? Is there any hope for PowerShell on Linux, it's an interesting take on shells.

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Post by cleanchit »

SomeoneOnTheWeb wrote: post #2

I personally use ZSH with Prezto, which makes it considerably better than vanilla ZSH. I've tried Nushell and it seems to work quite fine but it's really a different paradigm that makes you think of the data differently than *sh shells.

How does it compare to oh my zsh?

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Post by d3nj4l »

SomeoneOnTheWeb wrote: post #2

I personally use ZSH with Prezto, which makes it considerably better than vanilla ZSH. I've tried Nushell and it seems to work quite fine but it's really a different paradigm that makes you think of the data differently than *sh shells.

Yeah, I love some of the ideas of neo-shells but using zsh with oh-my-zsh (mostly because I've used it forever and have too much inertia to switch to prezto/starship) and I get most of those features without losing compatibility with the vast majority of shell scripts, guides or snippets I can find online.

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Post by japanman425 »

sakesun wrote: post #6

I decided last year to bite the bullet and learn Powershell. I think I will no longer have to wonder if there is a better option anymore.

It’s pretty fantastic, the trouble is finding a tutorial which isn’t a blog post that was written in the early 2000s using outdated syntax.
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