I am writing POSIX shell scripts quite often, mostly for speed and portability. Though, that might not even be needed, as bash might have gotten a speed increase compared to dash, ash and whatnot.
Here are some tests I plan to run to see if the speed difference is still the case
As my normal user shell I use fish since quite some time. I enjoy
- a simple PS1 that shows the git branch, git status, truncated path where I am
- autocompletion based on history
- autosuggestions from
-h or --help even if the tool has no autocompletions in other shells
abbr instead or alias is quite cool to not forget the actual commands. But I can live without
I dont use more features really. I have a couple of fish functions, and fish might just be a better bash with easier syntax. But bash is the standard, so I never use them anyways.
I wouldnt want to switch to zsh because it is weird permissively licensed. But if it is faster or better than bash, maybe?
I also like that fish is completely rewritten in rust. There is rusty-bash aka. sushi shell, anyone use that? Is is compatible with modules?
Are these extensions just scripts that you run on startup of the shell?
zsh was and I think still is technically an extended superset of bash.
It's pretty much exactly what you're looking for if you want bash scripting with fish features and plugin extensibility.
The downside is you gotta take some time to set up your .zhrc and choose if you want to use a backend like oh-my-zsh.
I think the reason its on MIT license was because it was essentially just a bunch of scripts bundled together and maintained by a wide variety of people with no intention of making it the default shell like fish or bash is.