Comment by thibran
6 hours ago
Its almost ironical that we still use the Terminal - and many use it like in the eighties using Bash - and seem to have forgotten that we should invent a better terminal & shell than doing all the workarounds to handle the quirks of the current systems.
Make a better system, and we'll consider using it.
A Terminal + Bash/ZSH is soooo sticky because they are VERY good at what they do once you learn the basics and quirks. And now with LLMs, CLIs are even better because LLMs talk in text and CLIs talk in text.
Microsoft tried with PowerShell to design a better system; it "technically" is better, but not "better enough" to justify the cost of switching (on Linux). The same is true of nushell; it is "better", but not better enough to justify switching for most people.
I believe we're at "peak input method" until someone invents Brain<->Computer interfaces.
I use the Terminal all the time and write my own CLI tools, but I'm feeling more and more the limits of the current system. With the years I have used almost all available shells (EShell was even my default for some time). Right now my favorite shell is Nushell, but still, it feels dated compare to what is possible on modern computers.
> Make a better system, and we'll consider using it. It's on my TODO list, but it will break with all conventions and tools (no TTY). My idea is to bring the chain-things-together idea to the 21st century using a keyboard first GUI.
Powershell and nushell are both miles better than bash and its descendants. I switched to nushell and you couldn't pay me to go back to bash. I only wish that it was kosher to install it on servers at work, but alas it isn't so I have to suffer with bash when managing systems.
We did! Nushell and Powershell are both so much better than bash that it's not even funny. There's zero reason to use a bash derivative in this day and age, they only persist through inertia + a minority of masochists actually like bash.