Anyone remember this one video of a guy designing a new command line shell?
from abuttandahalf@lemmy.ml to linux@lemmy.ml on 09 Jun 20:02
https://lemmy.ml/post/16675292

I think I remember seeing it on this community. It was a darkly colored video. It was mostly focused on UX design, and the guy was talking about pretty innovative features with auto completion suggestions and undoing and things like that. Does anyone remember it or have a link? My search was fruitless.

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lung@lemmy.world on 09 Jun 20:59 next collapse

Fk if I know, that describes every shell. But new trends include starship.rs and nushell. Just use zsh tho, it’s perfect, always has been

GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml on 09 Jun 21:03 next collapse

Performance has left the chat.

lung@lemmy.world on 09 Jun 21:11 collapse

Performance of what, zsh? C ain’t good enough anymore??

GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml on 09 Jun 21:20 next collapse

Yes, performance of zsh. Idk if it’s a bug, a language issue or just a downside of having more features but it is slower than bash

tmpod@lemmy.pt on 09 Jun 22:09 next collapse

It’s not because of features, since fish has tons of stuff as well and is super snappy. Someone pointed out most of those extra features are implemented in zsh itself, rather than in C, like core features.

ryannathans@aussie.zone on 10 Jun 02:17 collapse

If you want snappy, replace your terminal instead. Kitty is probably as fast as they get

CsXGF8uzUAOh6fqV@lemmy.world on 09 Jun 21:51 collapse

I ditched ZSH a long time ago because it wasn’t snappy. From what I remember, things like autocomplete, syntax highlighting, etc were written in ZSH and not build in. In something like Fish it is build in and it felt much faster to me.

tmpod@lemmy.pt on 09 Jun 22:15 next collapse

Last time I tried starship (a few years ago), it was pretty bad, very sloppy performance, not async, at least on fish. I ended up sticking with the simple, yet effective hydro. Maybe I can give starship another try, but honestly don’t know if I even need all those bells and whistles…

lung@lemmy.world on 10 Jun 00:31 collapse

Yeah I sure don’t, have been happy with my prompt for a decade

ryannathans@aussie.zone on 10 Jun 02:16 collapse

Zsh is solid

JustTesting@lemmy.hogru.ch on 09 Jun 21:09 next collapse

Might have been this? youtu.be/9-sbJ-xpnq8?si=eht5W2NCqYG6W-hq

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abuttandahalf@lemmy.ml on 10 Jun 04:57 collapse

YES

vvv@programming.dev on 09 Jun 22:23 collapse

Definitely not what you’re talking about, but still: www.destroyallsoftware.com/…/a-whole-new-world