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I'll have to check later today what now the default `cancel-commandline` is set to.
The most interesting thing about Fish 4.0.0 for most people will be that it is now written in Rust, which they talk about here [1]. Looking forward to testing it out and seeing if there are any noticeable differences. [1] https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/pull/9512
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I'm surprised Rust took more lines. Perhaps formatter makes shorter lines due to method chaining? Or improved test suite?
Rust, IMO is a noisy language. So not surprising it took more lines. Having to handle every case of every branch also probably balloons line count. Efficient LOC is not a goal of rust at all anyway.
I've used Fish for many years, but frankly only for the great autocompletion. The streamlined theme/prompt system and oh-my-fish plugin management are quite nice too, but minor. The rest of Fish features that are not bash-compatible are rather a pain, particularly environment variable management. In principle these features have a better design than in bash, but not that much better, and their use is infrequent enoug…
Fish 4.0: The Fish Of Theseus ( https://fishshell.com/blog/rustport/ ) is the full story of their rewrite from C++ to Rust. Discussed on HN here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42535217 (906 points, 198 comments). Highlights of the rewrite - 1155 files changed, 110247 insertions(+), 88941 deletions(-) (excluding translations) - 2604 commits by over 200 authors - 498 issues - Almost 2 years of work - 57K Lines…
I'm surprised Rust took more lines. Perhaps formatter makes shorter lines due to method chaining? Or improved test suite?
If you use Homebrew it’s not available there yet, but it’s being added. See https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/209124 .
You can just get the binary from the github, it's just a single executable! Or compile it yourself with one command (cargo build --release)
The most interesting thing about Fish 4.0.0 for most people will be that it is now written in Rust, which they talk about here [1]. Looking forward to testing it out and seeing if there are any noticeable differences. [1] https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/pull/9512
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I recently built my own shell to better understand its complexity and how it works under the hood. I also implemented redirections and partial tab completion. While I get that writing a shell isn’t the easiest task, I still don’t fully understand why there are so many different ones. I’ve been using the default shell on macOS, and so far, it works just fine.
The most interesting thing about Fish 4.0.0 for most people will be that it is now written in Rust, which they talk about here [1]. Looking forward to testing it out and seeing if there are any noticeable differences. [1] https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/pull/9512
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