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  • fartsparkles@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    You’re absolutely right. Fish isn’t really for scripting but is great for purely interactive use.

    Nushell however offers a totally different approach to “scripting” and I can achieve far more in a nushell one-liner than I ever could in a POSIX shell as it’s far more comparable to Python Pandas than a shell.

    For instance I can plot a line chart of file modifications over time directly in the shell with a single line of nushell. It’s mind blowing.

    • nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
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      1 year ago

      That’s great. I’m glad you like it and it sounds pretty awesome. It adds more variety to the command line, which is a beautiful thing. However, I do too much with remote systems that I don’t “own”, however, so, POSIX, for me, is a hard requirement - adding another domain specific language that I can only sometimes use is not worth the cognitive load for me.