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fish shellProject

fish is a smart and user-friendly command line shell, an open-source project.

4 things

RustSoftware

loved

Rust also has great tooling. The tools have really paid a lot of attention to use, and the compiler errors are terrific.

fish on Rust's tooling

fishshell.com ↗·2024-12-28Wrong?

PythonSoftware

uses

Fish has about 1200.fish scripts (961 completions, 217 associated functions), as well as about 130 pages of documentation (as html and man pages), and the web-config tool and the man page generator (both written in python).

fish's tooling after the port

fishshell.com ↗·2024-12-28Wrong?

CMakeSoftware

mixed

We kept cmake, in a simplified form, for these tasks, but let it hand over the responsibility of building to cargo.

fish kept CMake after the Rust port

fishshell.com ↗·2024-12-28Wrong?

C++Software

disliked

The ergonomics of C++ are also simply not good - header files are annoying, templates are complicated, you can easily cause a compile error that throws pages of overloads in the standard library at you.

Why fish moved from C++ to Rust in 4.0

fishshell.com ↗·2024-12-28Wrong?

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