starship VS fish-shell

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

starship

β˜„πŸŒŒοΈ The minimal, blazing-fast, and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell! (by starship)

fish-shell

The user-friendly command line shell. (by fish-shell)
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starship fish-shell
298 320
40,684 24,551
3.0% 1.7%
9.7 9.9
7 days ago 1 day ago
Rust Rust
ISC License GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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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.

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.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing starship and fish-shell you can also consider the following projects:

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

powerlevel10k - A Zsh theme

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

nushell - A new type of shell

oh-my-fish - The Fish Shell Framework

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.

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

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

tokyonight.nvim - πŸ™ 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.

alacritty - A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator.

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!