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Release fish 4.2.0
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this post was submitted on 10 Nov 2025
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Not going to lie, at first I forgot that Fish was ported to Rust and was confused why this was posted here.
I need to give Fish another try now that I'm on Linux. It's a great shell, but I couldn't really use it on Windows.
I'm using nushell, which is also written in Rust.
It has the added advantage of error handling that actually makes sense!
Yeah I normally use Nushell as well. It was the one cross-platform shell I really liked.
I'll still use it. I just need to find something a bit closer to bash for when I need to use bash commands to do something, or where working in an environment where others use bash. Nushell has some pretty major syntax differences like
&¬ being used to "chain" commands.Idk if that'll make you happy. The different POSIXy shells have so many subtle differences and footguns that I personally feel best
I can't be bothered to look up the weird arcane sigils that make bash not shit itself when e.g. using arrays as command args or so, so I will author only the most pedestrian bash scripts where pipes are already a bit much.
I already do #1, and I push for #3 (specifically Python or TS) where I can at work, but there's this weird obsession with bash that people have at work despite all these scripts not running on Windows natively (outside WSL). Currently I do #2, but I often end up just stuck in bash the whole time because it's needed for things as simple as building our code. I want to try out Fish as an alternative for those situations.