Fish: A user-friendly command line shell for macOS, Linux, etc

Hey all, one of the fish devs here. It's awesome to see all of the comments and happy users. We are in the process of scoping a major release (fish 3.0) that can include major syntactic changes. If there's an aspect of fish you would like to see changed, now is a great time! Of course we'll read the comments here, and our issues page [1] is where discussion happens. We're also welcoming new contributors. It's easy to get started…

Hey, I'm the lead dev of the fish shell. There's some great discussion in this thread! For those who are interested, the fish shell is about to release version 2.2, a very significant release that wraps up eighteen months of development. You can try the beta now: http://fishshell.com/beta/ A sampling of new features: - vi mode (yay!) - Abbreviations, fish's take on aliases. They expand as you type them. - A new "inline" pager, inspired by zsh. It's searchable and…

So the massive drawback of fish is it's incompatible with bash (and other shells people use). If you're in fish, this is easily remedied because almost every machine has bash too. However, you can't expect another machine to have fish. However, I just really like fish. I also live out of my own shell, and I don't spend much of my life remote-ing into other machines. When I do, my mind flips into bash just as easily as I flit…

So somewhat unique experience. I'm a designer. I code. React and css mostly. I do use Vim which I guess is weird for a designer. I love Fish. I'm likely not their target audience. I've been using it for years. Since the early days in 1.x land for sure. The homepage has never changed and I still laugh at the tagline. I find it's auto-completion, history and niceties indispensable. I'm the person who asks you what the command is to…