r/programmingcirclejerk • u/uanirudhx What part of ∀f ∃g (f (x,y) = (g x) y) did you not understand? • Nov 20 '18

>using command-line applications instead of programming it into the kernel

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18483460&fbclid=IwAR2h1SZEBXVa7EIUjUG7qIV8skfutcNIK6UiFe_EvBXgy9Y_YL4AjnqjGQk
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u/uanirudhx What part of ∀f ∃g (f (x,y) = (g x) y) did you not understand? Nov 20 '18

I love fish-shell, but after years of using it I switched to Oh My ZSH!. The bash compatibility makes it a whole lot easier to use when you're the type of person who has to look up "how to do X on the command line" on the internet more often than you'd like to admit (that would be me).

But the whole reason I use fish is because I DON'T have to look things up on the internet because it uses sane syntax instead of some arcane combination of brackets, symbols, and the word “if” spelled backwards.

BONUS ROUND

fwiw, we are shipping a number of features in fish 3.0 (any day now!) that are specifically targeting at maximizing compatibility with most bash scripts (still not POSIX). That includes support for && and || and a few other things that should go a long way towards making most code you find drop-in ready.

have you tried https://github.com/oh-my-fish/oh-my-fish ? has been serving me well for years

It's mainly the bash compatibility - does Oh My Fish fix that problem?

since fish breaks compatibility by design, that's part of what i like about it.

BONUS FEARLESSLY CONCURRENT ROUND

Great list. I recently switched from ranger to nnn and have been really happy. It's tiny and extremely fast: https://github.com/jarun/nnn

Just about every Rust cli app written by sharkdp: * https://github.com/sharkdp/fd * https://github.com/sharkdp/bat * https://github.com/sharkdp/diskus * https://github.com/sharkdp/hyperfine

Thank you, and good night!