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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I just learned about nushell a few days ago and it blew me away. I've always wanted a shell that made manipulating data easier, and with my programming background the functional style just clicked instantly. Been daily driving it for a couple weeks, definitely recommend folks give it a go.

[–] starman 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I discovered nushell a week ago and it's my primary shell now too. I miss some completions tho

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can use carapace to get many of them

[–] starman 2 points 1 year ago

That's really nice, thanks. Can't wait to set it up on my machine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, same. For now I just drop into old reliable zsh when I need to l but I love nu so much I might go ahead and look into coming up with the stuff I miss myself.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s incredible, isn’t it? I’m already working on plugins for a variety of tasks so I can fire things off for malware analysis, push tables to data stores, and more. It’s such an obvious evolution of POSIX, I’m surprised it’s not already a standard across all shells.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Yup, it legit changed how I think about interacting with a shell. I've always been kinda terrible at actually learning stuff like awk, sed and company on the long term without needing half a dozen Google searches before they mostly do what I want so actually being able to perform complex operations on whatever input on the fly feels incredible!
It helps so much with API development as well, I've been using it on a side project and having a built-in http client plus auto JSON parsing feels ergonomic in ways that just make me giddy lol.