• Digit@lemmy.wtf
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    15 hours ago

    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.