Ask HN: Does anyone use xonsh shell?

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  • xonsh

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

  • https://xon.sh/

    Looks pretty cool. I like that you can do basic arithmetic in the shell, feels like something every shell should be able to do out of the box.

    Anybody using it as their daily driver? Any gotchas?

  • xonsh-cheatsheet

    Cheat sheet for xonsh shell with copy-pastable examples. The best doc for the new users.

  • Xonsh is my shell on Mac around a 4 years. Past year it has a lot of improvements and the infrastructure of extensions is grow as well as Python becomes faster.

    Xonsh can't replace bash/zsh completely at this time because of subrpocess modules in Python are not pretty well developed. But for daily usge as an interactive shell xonsh is cool for Python developers, devops, data scientists and other users who can just read the documentation carefully.

    I highly recommend start diving into xonsh from the awesome xonsh cheatsheet on Github - https://github.com/anki-code/xonsh-cheatsheet

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