Comment by mplanchard
2 years ago
I used bash for ages, and never really saw what zsh offered in comparison: I would have had to customize it almost as much as bash, and it didn’t really give me anything new.
Fish was so much better than either out of the box, and I still have done virtually no configuration other than setting it up to use my common starship prompt, which is supported in bash as well.
I don’t understand personally the argument about not having bash syntax. If I want it, I just run `bash`.
> I don’t understand personally the argument about not having bash syntax.
Three main reasons:
1. The Fish language is only useful only for somehow extend fish itself, so it is pointless to spend time learning and practicing it unless I'm writing something for me or other Fish users.
2. Sometimes we need to copy and paste something to our shell. When using Fish I must remember to set variables with set, get the status code with $status instead of $?, use () instead of $() and so on, which is a unnecessary overhead
3. Bash's syntax is a hell: sometimes we forget a space, an escape, use end or done when we need to use fi or esac and so on. I don't trust my Bash code, I type everything in the terminal to check if everything is ok. In Fish I just can't do that...
> If I want it, I just run `bash`
That's what I do for 2 and 3. But when I do that I don't have the nice features of Fish...
I still love Fish, though.