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ohmyzsh
🙃 A delightful community-driven (with 2,400+ 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 that makes it easy to keep up with the latest updates from the community.
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oils
Oils is our upgrade path from bash to a better language and runtime. It's also for Python and JavaScript users who avoid shell!
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SaaSHub
SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives
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SaaSHub
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Hence, a higher number means a better fish-shell alternative or higher similarity.
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Brush (Bo(u)rn(e) RUsty SHell) a POSIX and Bash-Compatible Shell in Rust
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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A short tutorial on using fish shell.
Follow this to install. Note that this tutorial assume that you are on Linux.
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Fish 4.0.0
The most interesting thing about Fish 4.0.0 for most people will be that it is now written in Rust, which they talk about here [1]. Looking forward to testing it out and seeing if there are any noticeable differences.
[1] https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/pull/9512
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Tools for 2025
I've probably been using fish shell [0] for close to 10 years now. When I need POSIX compliance or if I need to run a one-off bash command, I just call bash. It's exceedingly rare.
Browsing through the documentation for Oils, it seems to be organized in a way that's very confusing. When you open the fish shell website it was two clear buttons for Tutorial and Documentation.
[0] https://fishshell.com/
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TIL: Ghostty — a new and quite promising terminal emulator
I remember that Julia Evans, whose blog I follow, mentioned a few time that she uses Fish. Also, some days ago I came across this post about Fish rewrite to Rust from C++, which sounds like a cool thing to do. However, I tried it some time ago, and while pretty neat, I wasn't convinced to switch to it completely.
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Easy development environments with Nix and Nix flakes!
The default shell in the above flake adds Valkey, NodeJS 22, the PNPM package manager, and the fish shell to the environment. It also starts Valkey in the background through a shell hook, passing it a custom config (declared via Nix!) and runs fish so we're dropped in the fish shell instead of our login shell.
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A new shell for using modern Unix commands
I’m testing a new shell called fish, and I’m enjoying some features that truly make it a friendly interactive shell.
- Discussion on writeable psub in Fish is revived
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From iTerm To WezTerm
WezTerm does not have a graphical interface for configuration, and the setup is done through a Lua file (this is unusual for me, but Vim users are familiar with it). The configuration file can be located at ~/.wezterm.lua or ~/.config/wezterm/wezterm.lua. I prefer the second path because it is where Fish and starship store configs too.
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Pytest Fish shell autocompletion
Typing repetitive commands or copying and pasting test names can eat up valuable time. To help, I've created pytest.fish - a Fish shell plugin that simplifies your pytest workflow. It's lightweight, simple to set up, and makes testing more efficient.
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A note from our sponsor - InfluxDB
www.influxdata.com | 14 May 2025
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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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