That was the exact opposite with fish. I had already gotten fairly well first with bash by the time I started using it, and the way fish did it was just super counterintuitive to me.
I couldn’t get into the overall design of how it looked and I disliked how command substitution and the built in’s worked, Combined with the fact that it’s a lesser used shell, so there’s less information available on it. I just couldn’t do it.
You brought up a point though. That makes me ask. You must not have to share your scripts with anyone then, right? Fish has a very small user base in comparison to ZSH and Bash and when I make a script that’s more advanced I tend to want to share it with my friends and having them install a whole new shell just to run a script is just not helpful to me. ZSH is close enough to bash in compatibility that, generally speaking, if I want to share it, I can use zsh And then convert the minor discrepancies. Where with fish I have to redo the entire script.
I don’t know why small user base is considered as meaning I must not have to share my scripts. Is it like an argumentum populum thing? [“If you build it they will come.” ;D]
[I suppose It’s true in a strict interpretation of those words… I don’t have to.]
I think I have several on my git repos. [… I have even written a text editor in fish.]
Free to use for anyone who wants to.
Also, if user base size is a concern, Fish’s user base is growing faster than Bash or ZSH.
Installing another shell seems a trivial matter to run something.
I install far bigger languages for far less all the time.
And conversion [if for some edge case reason you really need to ~ I know not why though] is generally trivial these days… just ask an LLM, if conversion scripts are lacking.
As for the less information about it… the online help’s really rather thorough and accessible.
I don’t know that quantity over quality would help. It didn’t for me and bash.
Unless I missed something, it seems to me that all that remains, is
I disliked
And that’s of course utterly fine. Free software’s defining point zero, the freedom to use software, includes the freedom to not use. Good to have multiple options to further facilitate that first freedom, catering to more variety of tastes.
That was the exact opposite with fish. I had already gotten fairly well first with bash by the time I started using it, and the way fish did it was just super counterintuitive to me.
I couldn’t get into the overall design of how it looked and I disliked how command substitution and the built in’s worked, Combined with the fact that it’s a lesser used shell, so there’s less information available on it. I just couldn’t do it.
You brought up a point though. That makes me ask. You must not have to share your scripts with anyone then, right? Fish has a very small user base in comparison to ZSH and Bash and when I make a script that’s more advanced I tend to want to share it with my friends and having them install a whole new shell just to run a script is just not helpful to me. ZSH is close enough to bash in compatibility that, generally speaking, if I want to share it, I can use zsh And then convert the minor discrepancies. Where with fish I have to redo the entire script.
I don’t know why small user base is considered as meaning I must not have to share my scripts. Is it like an argumentum populum thing? [“If you build it they will come.” ;D]
[I suppose It’s true in a strict interpretation of those words… I don’t have to.]
I think I have several on my git repos. [… I have even written a text editor in fish.]
Free to use for anyone who wants to.
Also, if user base size is a concern, Fish’s user base is growing faster than Bash or ZSH.
Installing another shell seems a trivial matter to run something.
I install far bigger languages for far less all the time.
And conversion [if for some edge case reason you really need to ~ I know not why though] is generally trivial these days… just ask an LLM, if conversion scripts are lacking.
As for the less information about it… the online help’s really rather thorough and accessible.
I don’t know that quantity over quality would help. It didn’t for me and bash.
Unless I missed something, it seems to me that all that remains, is
And that’s of course utterly fine. Free software’s defining point zero, the freedom to use software, includes the freedom to not use. Good to have multiple options to further facilitate that first freedom, catering to more variety of tastes.