Fish 4.0: The Fish of Theseus
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Fish 4.0: The Fish of Theseus
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#3Really happy to see this, such a mammoth effort by the team and everyone else involved.
I switched over from zsh about four years ago and my config went from several hundred lines to a handful with just one plugin (fzf.fish).
It just works how I expect it to and I can't imagine changing again any time soon.
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#4> Fish also uses threads for its award-winning (note to editor: find an actual award) autosuggestions and syntax highlighting, and one long-term project is to add concurrency to the language.
(note to editor: find an actual award)
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Me too. I just keep watching the crustea-culting and wondering if I’m actually missing out.
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Well you are in luck because that is exactly what the article is about.
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#8Congrats to the fish team! Great writeup with lots of interesting detail.
I wonder if this is the biggest project that has moved from C++ entirely to Rust (or maybe even C to Rust?) It probably has useful lessons for other projects.
If I'm reading this right, it looks like fish was not released as a hybrid C++ / Rust program, with the autocxx-generated bindings. There was a release during that time, but it says "fish 3.7 remains a C++ program" [1]
It sounds like they could have released if they wanted to, but there was a last stage of testing that didn't happen until the end.
Some people didn't quite get the motivation for adding C++ features to Rust [2], and vice versa, to enable inter-op. But perhaps this is a good case study.
It would be nice if you could just write new Rust code in a C++ codebase, without writing/generating bindings, and then throwing them away, which is mentioned in this post.
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Also the #1 gripe with Rust seems to be that it supports version detection, not feature detection.
But feature detection is better for distros, web browsers, and compilers:
Feature Detection Is Better than Version Detection - https://github.com/oils-for-unix/oils/wiki/Feature-Detection...
Version/name detection is why Chrome and IE pretend to be Mozilla, and why Clang pretends to be GCC. Feature detection (e.g. ./configure and eval() ) doesn't cause this problem!
Re: Fish 4.0: The Fish of Theseus
#9> Fish also uses threads for its award-winning (note to editor: find an actual award) autosuggestions and syntax highlighting, and one long-term project is to add concurrency to the language. (note to editor: find an actual award)
it's a joke my friend
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#10> Fish also uses threads for its award-winning (note to editor: find an actual award) autosuggestions and syntax highlighting, and one long-term project is to add concurrency to the language. (note to editor: find an actual award)
The two most popular zsh plugins are total clones of this at 31k and 20k gh stars respectively. Not an award but certainly an indication of its success.