Release fish 4.2.0 · fish-shell/fish-shell
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This release comprises 473 commits since 4.1.2, contributed by 35 authors, 15 of which are new committers. Notable improvements and fixes History-based autosuggestions now include multi-line comma...
  • TehPers@beehaw.orgEnglish
    4·
    2 days ago

    Not going to lie, at first I forgot that Fish was ported to Rust and was confused why this was posted here.

    I need to give Fish another try now that I’m on Linux. It’s a great shell, but I couldn’t really use it on Windows.

    • flying_sheep@lemmy.ml
      1·
      5 hours ago

      I’m using nushell, which is also written in Rust.

      It has the added advantage of error handling that actually makes sense!

      • TehPers@beehaw.orgEnglish
        1·
        5 hours ago

        Yeah I normally use Nushell as well. It was the one cross-platform shell I really liked.

        I’ll still use it. I just need to find something a bit closer to bash for when I need to use bash commands to do something, or where working in an environment where others use bash. Nushell has some pretty major syntax differences like && not being used to “chain” commands.

        • flying_sheep@lemmy.ml
          1·
          4 hours ago

          Idk if that’ll make you happy. The different POSIXy shells have so many subtle differences and footguns that I personally feel best

          • using nushell as a daily driver, as it’s sane and makes sense and errors out when it should
          • using bash when forced to interact with things that are written in bash (I don’t know anything written in fish or ZSH)
          • using Python or Rust or so for scripts living in projects that are written in that language

          I can’t be bothered to look up the weird arcane sigils that make bash not shit itself when e.g. using arrays as command args or so, so I will author only the most pedestrian bash scripts where pipes are already a bit much.

          • TehPers@beehaw.orgEnglish
            1·
            3 hours ago

            I already do #1, and I push for #3 (specifically Python or TS) where I can at work, but there’s this weird obsession with bash that people have at work despite all these scripts not running on Windows natively (outside WSL). Currently I do #2, but I often end up just stuck in bash the whole time because it’s needed for things as simple as building our code. I want to try out Fish as an alternative for those situations.