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i made the transition from fish to nushell and can confirm all this stupid JSON data and YAML config was the reason
You made a full transition? Or just when you are working with the data and configs?
it started just dropping in to mess with some data. now it’s my daily driver, and i have a trove of scripts that are my docs as code for systems like systemd or stuff that is specific to work
Do you miss fish at all?
nah nushell does all that and more. i think fish is a good alt for someone who knows enough bash to know that scripting it sucks. if you want autocomplete and plugins n stuff it’s probably the most ergonomic POSIX-like shell out there.
Cool. I might experiment a bit with nushell then, I just don't have a use case for it though, that's mainly been the "blocker". I have no real motivation to switch. Maybe it's better suited for a DevOps kind of situation or similar.