• TehPers@beehaw.org
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    19 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.

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      19 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.

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        17 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.