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Top 23 Rust Shell Projects
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Project mention: Brush (Bo(u)rn(e) RUsty SHell) a POSIX and Bash-Compatible Shell in Rust | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-05-06
Since everyone is sharing shells written in Rust, I've become quite fond of Nushell: https://www.nushell.sh/
I'd love to see more shell exploring things beyond POSIX. Text based stdin/stdout will always have its place, but having ways to express, serialize, and pass along data in more structured ways is quite nice.
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Project mention: Brush (Bo(u)rn(e) RUsty SHell) a POSIX and Bash-Compatible Shell in Rust | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-05-06
I didn't realize fish was written in Rust, and it was my primary shell for a few years. Looks like they couldn't resist the rewrite it in Rust meme :-D
https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/tree/c2eaef7273c555...
vs the C++
https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/tree/d9d3557fcfbce1...
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zoxide
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Have been using Atuin for a couple (few?) years, it's great! How many others are using it too? I'm curious what everyone's tool of choice for shell search is!
https://github.com/atuinsh/atuin
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Project mention: Show HN: Empty Enter Expander – Type less in the terminal with this tool | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-04-25
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I've been using McFly [1] recently, and like it a lot.
> McFly replaces your default ctrl-r shell history search with an intelligent search engine that takes into account your working directory and the context of recently executed commands. McFly's suggestions are prioritized in real time with a small neural network.
[1] https://github.com/cantino/mcfly
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aichat
All-in-one LLM CLI tool featuring Shell Assistant, Chat-REPL, RAG, AI Tools & Agents, with access to OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Ollama, Groq, and more.
Project mention: A tiny Go tool for generating conventional commits using Claude | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-03-24```
I like that your tool includes some previous commit messages... I'm not sure if that can be done with `aichat` but it seems like a great idea.
I'd be tempted to wrap individual commit messages in pseudo-xml tags, as Claude really likes those[^2] and the `%B` format doesn't really show the breaks between commit messages.
1: https://github.com/sigoden/aichat
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httm
Interactive, file-level Time Machine-like tool for ZFS/btrfs/nilfs2 (and even Time Machine and Restic backups!)
Project mention: Interactive, file-level Time Machine-like tool for ZFS/btrfs/nilfs2 | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-07-20 -
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Project mention: Cmd-Wrapped: A CLI Tool for Shell History Insights | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-09-06
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rust_cmd_lib
Common rust command-line macros and utilities, to write shell-script like tasks in a clean, natural and rusty way
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Project mention: Brush (Bo(u)rn(e) RUsty SHell) a POSIX and Bash-Compatible Shell in Rust | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-05-06
Another POSIX shell in Rust I remember: https://github.com/nuta/nsh
But it no longer seems to be in active development.
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My favorite entry in this space is Argc. I like it because the only “new syntax” it introduces is metadata comments, and the rest is pure bash. The maintainer is also best-in-class in terms of responsiveness.
https://github.com/sigoden/argc
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shellfirm
Intercept any risky patterns (default or defined by you) and prompt you a small challenge for double verification
Project mention: Shellfirm: Your Terminal's New Best Friend (and Accidental Data Loss Savior!) | dev.to | 2025-03-24View the Project on GitHub
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Project mention: Brush (Bo(u)rn(e) RUsty SHell) a POSIX and Bash-Compatible Shell in Rust | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-05-06
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Would also like to mention [tab-rs](https://github.com/austinjones/tab-rs) which has a much more unconventional take on multiplexing.
It is sad that it has not been maintained in a while (written in rust) as I much prefer the low cognitive load approach it presents (just fuzzy find) as well as the workspace feature.
Would be interested in knowing if there is something similar and maintained.
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Shell projects in Rust? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | nushell | 34,999 |
| 2 | fish-shell | 29,734 |
| 3 | zoxide | 26,302 |
| 4 | atuin | 23,837 |
| 5 | navi | 15,731 |
| 6 | gping | 11,547 |
| 7 | mcfly | 7,228 |
| 8 | aichat | 6,681 |
| 9 | vivid | 1,916 |
| 10 | cfonts | 1,652 |
| 11 | httm | 1,470 |
| 12 | sheldon | 1,172 |
| 13 | cmd-wrapped | 1,144 |
| 14 | rust_cmd_lib | 1,107 |
| 15 | dune | 1,049 |
| 16 | cicada | 995 |
| 17 | nsh | 940 |
| 18 | argc | 929 |
| 19 | shellfirm | 828 |
| 20 | brush | 736 |
| 21 | tab-rs | 665 |
| 22 | teip | 586 |
| 23 | duckscript | 546 |
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