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18 developer tools I use to improve my workflow
10. fish shell
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The Ultimate Guide to a Smooth Dev Environment
Linux offers various shell options, each with unique features that can enhance your command-line experience. The default shell on most Linux distributions is Bash, but other popular alternatives include Zsh and Fish.
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Ask HN: What dev tools do you rely on that nobody talks about?
It's amazing, how rarely people talk about fish (https://fishshell.com/)
I love it so much that I pity people that use Bash, Zsh.
- Fish 4.5.0
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You probably don't need Oh My Zsh
https://fishshell.com/ https://xon.sh/ https://www.nushell.sh/ https://elv.sh/
You're replying to someone that says POSIX shells are holding people back, not that the terminal is a bad idea, there are many alternative shells which offer benefits over POSIX shells. fish-shell has everything you want from an interactive shell included, xonsh is a mix Python shell, nushell and elvish are adding types and other things to shell.
The VT protocols that all shells have to confirm with are pretty dated and I'd love to throw them off the roof for something less stateful and with multiple font sizes but there's no arguing that text based interfaces are good.
- Release fish 4.3.0 · fish-shell/fish-shell
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Ion: Modern System Shell in Rust
In case you guys missed it: the popular fish shell is also now written in Rust. :)
https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/releases/tag/4.0.0
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easy-install: A Rust-Powered Package Installer That Actually Works on OpenWrt
Fish is a user-friendly, cross-platform shell with excellent autocompletion.
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A note from our sponsor - AppSignal
www.appsignal.com | 13 Sep 2026
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fish-shell/fish-shell is an open source project licensed under GNU General Public License v3.0 or later which is an OSI approved license.
fish-shell is marked as "self-hosted". This means that it can be used as a standalone application on its own.
The primary programming language of fish-shell is Rust.
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