slimzsh vs XS

slimzsh

Small, usable configuration for ZSH (by changs)

XS

[ABANDONED] An extensible shell (descended from es and rc) having functional semantics and a conventional syntax. (by TieDyedDevil)

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slimzsh		XS
	Project
2	Mentions	2
599	Stars	51
-	Growth	-
4.3	Activity	0.0
about 1 month ago	Latest Commit	over 2 years ago
Shell	Language	C++
-	License	-

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slimzsh

Posts with mentions or reviews of slimzsh. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-25.

How to customize/style my ZSH MAC Terminal?
1 project | /r/learnprogramming | 15 May 2022

I really like this one https://github.com/changs/slimzsh
The Fish Shell Is Amazing
19 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Nov 2021

Slimzsh[1] is a very nice default configuration. Just a slim prompt, fast-syntax-highlighting and some vanilla settings.
I keep a personal fork with a few added plugins (most notably zsh-autosuggestions and ssh-agent). No need for a plugin manager.
[1]: https://github.com/changs/slimzsh

XS

Posts with mentions or reviews of XS. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-22.

What's your preferred shell & why?
13 projects | /r/archlinux | 22 Oct 2022

Both provide scripting languages that are more "functional" (in the sense of functional programming). nushell is newer, written in Rust, under active development, and seems to be stabilizing. es is older (circa 1990s), written in C, and based on rc and scheme. There's also a C++ version xs that appears abandoned as well as a few forks sprinkled around. None are POSIX-compatible.
The Fish Shell Is Amazing
19 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Nov 2021

I'd rather have a more powerful shell that uses a functional style yet preserves many shell semantics we're all familiar with (like XS, https://github.com/TieDyedDevil/XS , except maintained!) than an easier-to-use shell

What are some alternatives?

When comparing slimzsh and XS you can also consider the following projects:

ohmyzsh - 🙃 A delightful community-driven (with 2,300+ contributors) framework for managing your zsh configuration. Includes 300+ optional plugins (rails, git, macOS, hub, docker, homebrew, node, php, python, etc), 140+ themes to spice up your morning, and an auto-update tool so that makes it easy to keep up with the latest updates from the community.

aush - Pythonic subprocess library

zgen - A lightweight and simple plugin manager for ZSH

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!

fzf-tab - Replace zsh's default completion selection menu with fzf!

powerlevel10k - A Zsh theme

fzf - :cherry_blossom: A command-line fuzzy finder

josh

zsh-syntax-highlighting - Fish shell like syntax highlighting for Zsh.

micro-editor - A modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor