nushell VS xonsh

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.

Yeah, mostly I lack time to catch up with Jonathan Slenders works, and have stronger backward compatibility requirements. b=But ptpython and pyipython are both great.

I should also look into Rich and Textual

https://bpython-interpreter.org/ is also another alternative python shell, and of course https://xon.sh

You likely want to use something like https://github.com/jupyter/jupyter_console, or ipykernel directly to have a persistent python process. One issue is that shells are text based, so you have to do a lot of serialisation/deserialisation.

But honestly at that point I would just look into https://xon.sh/ that blends Python and Shell together. IPython and Xonsh devs are friends, so if you need anything from one into the other it's likely doable.

In addition to copying, moving, linking, listing, deleting and reading (text-based) files, I also: use git from the terminal; use the terminal as a calculator (I use xonsh and Python shell; use mysql shell in the terminal; and, of course, I use SSH to login to remote hosts where I continue using the terminal (now remotely).

I raise you xonsh: bash in your Python and vice versa, all in the shell! https://xon.sh/

Also have to mention the fantastic Python Prompt Toolkit, which xonsh is based on - https://python-prompt-toolkit.readthedocs.io/en/master/

I mirror another commenter's excitement on this thread about the cool libraries we have at this age, and the tools that are made possible by them.

I did run xonsh, which is a Python based command shell. I stopped using it... well I can't remember exactly but one of the reasons was that I basically only had it installed on my dev boxes, and the servers didn't always have that.

There's also xonsh[1], which is like a Python REPL and bash rolled into one.

1. https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh

I got mine aliased to update and install, do you feel like shell is worth learning? I thought something like this would be more useful. https://xon.sh/

I'll go ahead and put my head on the chopping block as probably the lone person here that loves Xonsh (pronounced Konsh). Having used Bash, Zsh, and Fish extensively - using Xonsh with the full power of Python behind it is a totally different and wonderful experience, and I don't want to ever go back. Having true objects to act on and first class data structures on the command line is crazy helpful. It feels like what MS was trying to accomplish with Powershell, but executed way better.

Have something like https://xon.sh/