alt Hacker NewsI’ll switch to fish when it comes preinstalled on all of the computers I use so I can write scripts in it.
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kstrauser • last Sunday at 11:12 PM
Do you really limit your shell experience to plain POSIX? That sounds masochistic.
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Max-Limelihood • last Tuesday at 4:15 AM
That's why I use C to write all my shell scripts. Can't have something non-portable like bash, which is missing from 75% of computers by default.
(Seriously, what am I missing here? Is `apt-brew pacman install fish` really that hard to type? If cross-platform portability is actually a concern, shouldn't you be using Python anyway?)
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I already avoid bash scripting so I lose very little. Shell scripting beyond throwaway one-liners is a problem not a solution.
(Well that and all my machines come from the same NixOS configs.)