[silverlyra]

Wow, thank you for posting this. I’ve been kinda curious to try Fish over the years, but seeing this message from one of the maintainers – how mature and well-reasoned, how both charmingly joking and firmly assertive it is – now really gets me thinking that I’ve been missing out on using an excellent project.

[acdha]

I used bash heavily for years but decided I’d spent enough time maintaining dotfiles & working around quirks around the middle of the last decade. I looked at a few alternatives but since fish had everything I wanted builtin, I decided to try it for a while. After the first day, I decided the experiment was over and switched everywhere. It’s great software both for how much it does and how little it forces you to think about how it works as opposed to what you’re trying to do.