nushell VS starship

Most of the time I'm in Powershell which, thanks to Powershell Core, is now cross-platform and incredibly powerful. But I'm finding myself also using Nu more and more. In both shells I also use the Databricks CLI a lot. Want to check the status of jobs? Use the CLI. Want to upload and download data? Use the CLI. And so on.

There are also some new shells in the list, including Tabbyand Nushell, which both had around 7K stars, though Nushell is a much newer project

I'd recommend to take a look at https://www.nushell.sh/ which has structured output, but displays it neatly when printing to the terminal.

I'm surprised to see no mention of nushell [0] I've tried it a while ago and seemed really promising

[0] https://www.nushell.sh/

Has anyone tried out Nushell recently? I've been playing with it for the last few days, and it's shaping up into something pretty impressive for data/pipeline handling.

But no, people should use pipes in Nushell, of course! ;-P

Might want to add something about why someone would want this over something like say NuShell. Only thing I'm seeing right now seems to be the Lua thing.. which is kind of irrelevant to me anyway. Thanks.

You might find this interesting

There's also Nushell, which I've never used, which is similar to Powershell in that commands return structured data rather than text, but I believe has a more functional-inspired approach, rather than object-oriented.

I recently added https://starship.rs/ to my zsh config but it works in bash or other shells as well and looks really cool. Before that I was only using the git plugins from oh-my-zsh which were pretty good too. In any case I can highly recommend OMZ.

Starship, on the other hand, helps customize the prompt of any shell that you may be using

Fancy Bash Prompts. Notes From my .bashrc #---------------------------------- # Homepage, then the command to activate # Starship -> https://starship.rs/ #eval "$(starship init bash)" # Silver https://github.com/reujab/silver #source

You might want to check Starship, it can enhance your shell customization and has those kind of features

I got the idea to use eval by looking at the starship project. What are your thoughts on how they do their initialization? Could it be made any faster/better? (FWIW, I myself use p10k simply because it looks much better; I haven't actually compared the two in terms of performance.)

For the prompt I really like starship. As far as having a space in an alias I don’t think that’s possible because it will interpret the first word as the command.

> One of the most important changes I made to my bash setup was to change my prompt to multi line, detect whether I was in a git repo, include the branch in the prompt, and also include a summary of git status.

Check out starship[1] if you haven't. It's a prompt that does just this and more, and works across shells like Bash, fish, zsh, etc.

[1] https://github.com/starship/starship

They're using Starship prompt