AutoHotkey VS fish-shell

Compare AutoHotkey vs fish-shell and see what are their differences.

AutoHotkey

:gear: My Autohotkey productivity suite that includes shortcuts, hotstrings, hotkeys, apps/utilities, AutoCorrect (by denolfe)

fish-shell

The user-friendly command line shell. (by fish-shell)
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AutoHotkey fish-shell
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163 24,593
- 0.9%
10.0 9.9
almost 4 years ago 3 days ago
AutoHotkey Rust
- GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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AutoHotkey

Posts with mentions or reviews of AutoHotkey. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-21.
  • Learn AutoHotKey by stealing my scripts
    20 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Aug 2023
    AutoHotkey is what made me fall love programming after disliking it after getting my degree. After switching to a macbook, AutoHotkey is probably what I miss most from being on Windows. It really has it all.

    My old suite had:

    - Universal VIM movement w/ CapsLock

    - App launch hotkeys

    - App-specific hotkeys

    - Easy text-expansion

    Hasn't been updated in years, but here is the repo for those interested: https://github.com/denolfe/autohotkey

    Or a nice boilerplate to start from: https://github.com/denolfe/AutoHotkeyBoilerplate

  • Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)
    69 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Dec 2022
    I used to be a very heavy AHK user and developer a rather extensive config. Here is my config along with a boilerplate to help you start one that is similar:

    - https://github.com/denolfe/AutoHotkey

fish-shell

Posts with mentions or reviews of fish-shell. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-22.
  • FAQ on the xz-utils backdoor – via a project dev
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Mar 2024
    Reminds of the note at the bottom of Fish's releases. It's there because the build system cannot determine the current version for some reason. Hopefully that will go away now that they have switched to a different language / build system. The custom tarball is used by Arch Linux at the very least.

    https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/releases/tag/3.7.1

    https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/7772#issueco...

    https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/fi...

  • Oh My Zsh
    19 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Jan 2024
  • Proposal for porting fish-shell from C++ to Rust
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Jan 2024
  • Converting the Kernel to C++
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Jan 2024
    A recent practical example of the former: the fish shell re-wrote incrementally from C++ to Rust, and is almost finished https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/discussions/10123

    An example of the latter: c2rust, which is a work in progress but is very impressive https://github.com/immunant/c2rust

    It currently translates into unsafe Rust, but the strategy is to separate the "compile C to unsafe Rust" steps and the "compile unsafe Rust to safe Rust" steps. As I see it, as it makes the overall task simpler, allows for more user freedom, and makes the latter potentially useful even for non-transpiled code. https://immunant.com/blog/2023/03/lifting/

  • Fish shell 3.7.0: last release branch before the full Rust rewrite
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Jan 2024
    And this discussion from November has an update on the progress: https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/discussions/10123
  • Day 5 - More or less...
    3 projects | /r/linuxupskillchallenge | 7 Dec 2023
    We're using bash as our terminal shell for now (it is standard in many distros) but it is not the only one out there. If you want to test out zsh, fish or oh-my-zsh, you will see that there are a few differences and the features are usually the main differentiator. Try that, poke around.
  • Fish – Update on the Rust Port
    1 project | /r/patient_hackernews | 28 Nov 2023
    1 project | /r/hackernews | 28 Nov 2023
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Nov 2023
    They have a variety of reasons to move to rust, as outlined in their original rust discussion[1]. Mostly around finding other contributors, and adding an async/parallel mode they're comfortable with.

    [1] https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/pull/9512

  • Devuan アップグレード: 4 から 5 Daedalus へ
    3 projects | dev.to | 4 Sep 2023

What are some alternatives?

When comparing AutoHotkey and fish-shell you can also consider the following projects:

autohotkey-scripts - Some AutoHotKey scripts that I use[d]

powerlevel10k - A Zsh theme

dotfiles

starship - ☄🌌️ The minimal, blazing-fast, and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell!

daveconfig - A collection of settings and tiny scripts for many things. Note: only main branch is safe!

nushell - A new type of shell

xsv - A fast CSV command line toolkit written in Rust.

oh-my-fish - The Fish Shell Framework

Mosh - Mobile Shell

xonsh - :shell: Python-powered, cross-platform, Unix-gazing shell.

AutoHotkeyScripts - Personal AutoHotkey Scripts

tokyonight.nvim - 🏙 A clean, dark Neovim theme written in Lua, with support for lsp, treesitter and lots of plugins. Includes additional themes for Kitty, Alacritty, iTerm and Fish.