Fish rewrite-it-in Rust progress: 100% - eviltoast
    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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      10 months ago

      Looks like the only thing left is the rest runner, and it’s probably not happening anytime soon since it’s a ton of syscalls and Rust doesn’t really add any advantages there imo.

      • TechNom (nobody)@programming.dev
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        10 months ago

        The impression that I got is that while there is nothing more to port in the shell itself, the performance and concurrency goals haven’t been fully realized yet. The new Rust code needs a bit more tuning before it can replace the old shell.

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      10 months ago

      Honestly this looks like a perfect way to make both python and bash more complex in a single move

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      10 months ago

      Fish’s main attraction was never its scripting language - it was its UI. You can run bash scripts from fish (using bash of course), while still enjoying its bit more modern UI. Bash was never a challenge to fish. Nushell, on the other hand, is a different case.