What's your preferred shell & why?

• ohmyzsh

  223 154,585 8.5 Shell

  🙃 A delightful community-driven (with 2,100+ 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.

  

• bash-it

  12 13,377 7.0 Shell

  A community Bash framework.

  

• Sonar

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• zsh-syntax-highlighting

  26 16,193 2.9 Shell

  Fish shell like syntax highlighting for Zsh.

  

  https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions

• oil

  81 2,445 9.2 Python

  Oil is a new Unix shell. It's our upgrade path from bash to a better language and runtime. It's also for Python and JavaScript users who avoid shell!

  

• zimfw

  13 2,965 6.9 HTML

  Zim: Modular, customizable, and blazing fast Zsh framework

  

  zsh with zim framework

• micro-editor

  84 20,988 8.2 Go

  A modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor

  I also switched to alacritty recently, because of its clipboard support OSC 52 for copying for my terminal text editor.

• xxh

  8 4,106 4.6 Python

  🚀 Bring your favorite shell wherever you go through the ssh.

  

  To solve the ssh problem there’s xxh which scp’s a portable shell of your choosing before starting an interactive session with it on the server.

• InfluxDB

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• xonsh

  44 6,757 9.5 Python

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

  

  Well if you need another standard altogether and already script in Python, may I introduce to you xon.sh?

• josh

  1 0 10.0 Rust

  josh

• fish-shell

  108 20,250 9.9 C++

  The user-friendly command line shell.

  

  I used to use Zsh, but I accidentally did `rm -rf ~/` and didn't have a proper backup. So, now I've been using FishShell for a couple of months, it has a fantastic out of the box experience. And for non-interactive usage, I use a POSIX-Compliant shell (dash). Zsh is really good too, but you have to configure it. I always use FishShell on root as I can't be bothered to configure root environment to great extent during installation haha.

• nushell

  72 22,639 9.9 Rust

  A new type of shell

  

  I use bash and always have, but recently I've been interested in switching to either nushell and es for interactive use.

• es-shell

  1 269 10.0 C

  es: a shell with higher-order functions (by wryun)

  I use bash and always have, but recently I've been interested in switching to either nushell and es for interactive use.

• XS

  1 48 0.0 C++

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

  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.

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