fish-functions VS fish-shell

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

fish-functions

:wrench: My utility belt of fish functions, writing these has saved me many hours in the long run... I hope... (by pirate)

fish-shell

The user-friendly command line shell. (by fish-shell)
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5.8 9.9
2 months ago 3 days ago
Shell Rust
- GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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fish-functions

Posts with mentions or reviews of fish-functions. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-05-17.
  • Fish Shell
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 May 2021
    I think fish's syntax is cleaner, though as others have pointed out, the incompatibility is often not worth it.

    Even though it's "sane", I would say it's not "powerful". It's significantly less powerful than bash:

    e.g. there is a list of missing things here:

    https://github.com/pirate/fish-utils/blob/master/README.md

    https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/159

    I have a particular viewpoint since I'm writing a shell for scripting, and I wrote this FAQ.

  • Why Create a New Unix Shell? (2021)
    4 projects | /r/programming | 4 Feb 2021
    Issues collected from an experienced fish programmer. I just learned about this and some are pretty bad: https://github.com/pirate/fish-functions/blob/master/README.md

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 fish-functions and fish-shell you can also consider the following projects:

bass - Make Bash utilities usable in Fish shell

powerlevel10k - A Zsh theme

sublime-fish - A robust Sublime Text syntax package for fish

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

fish_logo - 🐠 Fish shell colorful ASCII-art logo

nushell - A new type of shell

atom - Shell scripting that will knock your socks off

oh-my-fish - The Fish Shell Framework

dotfiles - All my dotfiles.

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

oil - Oils is our upgrade path from bash to a better language and runtime. It's also for Python and JavaScript users who avoid shell!

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.