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I cannot agree more! Fish shell is the absolute best! I think I may have switched over to it in 2017 _because_ of Julia's blog. And it has been a boon for my productivity.

I set up a whole dotfiles tracking system and periodically keep making backups of the config. Fish has been sole system that has travelled with me to different machines, different companies, running on Macs, running on Linux, running on personal laptops, iMacs, and so so many different versions/instances of workstations on the server in docker, in aws etc etc.

I worked at Amazon in 2017 and we had a whole "developer environment" system built off of Apollo and my Fish config fit right in with the company-defaults for various build systems, log systems, metrics yada yada. I wrote myself a ton of nice aliases, new functions, new scripts.

I moved to Apple in 2019 and brought my Fish config over (sans any Amazon-specific things of course) and all my customizations have ported over nicely. They play well with all the Apple-y unique configs this company now gives its engineers.

Fish has been snappy & delightful.

I guess one could argue zsh could work just as well and has the benefit of being compatible with native bash syntax. But I found zsh and its ilk (oh my zsh) too slow tbh. They're nothing --and I mean zilch, nada-- compared to the speed of Fish. Fish w/ Bass (love the puns in the fish community, btw) accomplishes much of the backward compatibility needs with bash or bash-like syntax; while still performing at the snappy speeds of Fish.

Love Fish! Love Julia's notes! Ahh life is just perfect sometimes!

While we're fanboying over Julia, here's a picture of the time I made myself a t-shirt from Julia's zines of Recurse Center's values: https://x.com/b0rk/status/876571293491109889