starship VS zsh

Compare starship vs zsh and see what are their differences.

starship

β˜„πŸŒŒοΈ The minimal, blazing-fast, and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell! (by starship)
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starship zsh
298 1
40,506 0
2.6% -
9.7 2.2
5 days ago almost 3 years ago
Rust Shell
ISC License -
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starship

Posts with mentions or reviews of starship. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-21.

zsh

Posts with mentions or reviews of zsh. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-06-02.
  • Newbie question // fish or zsh
    8 projects | /r/archlinux | 2 Jun 2021
    Honestly, after I installed the spaceship prompt, autojump, zsh-autosuggestions, zsh-syntax-highlighting, and I got my configs set up for it, I became far too comfy to ever give fish more than a few minutes of my time.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing starship and zsh you can also consider the following projects:

oh-my-posh - The most customisable and low-latency cross platform/shell prompt renderer

zimfw - Zim: Modular, customizable, and blazing fast Zsh framework

spaceship-prompt - :rocket::star: Minimalistic, powerful and extremely customizable Zsh prompt

zsh4humans - A turnkey configuration for Zsh

powerlevel10k - A Zsh theme

fast-syntax-highlighting - (Short name F-Sy-H). Syntax-highlighting for Zshell – fine granularity, number of features and multiple shipped themes.

ohmyzsh - πŸ™ƒ 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.

awesome-zsh-plugins - A collection of ZSH frameworks, plugins, themes and tutorials.

zsh-autocomplete - πŸ€– Real-time type-ahead completion for Zsh. Asynchronous find-as-you-type autocompletion.

thefuck - Magnificent app which corrects your previous console command.

alacritty - A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator.

fish-shell - The user-friendly command line shell.