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    • Lupec@lemm.ee
      7·
      9 months ago

      I just learned about nushell a few days ago and it blew me away. I’ve always wanted a shell that made manipulating data easier, and with my programming background the functional style just clicked instantly. Been daily driving it for a couple weeks, definitely recommend folks give it a go.

      • starman@programming.devEnglish
        5·
        9 months ago

        I discovered nushell a week ago and it’s my primary shell now too. I miss some completions tho

        • Lupec@lemm.ee
          1·
          9 months ago

          Yeah, same. For now I just drop into old reliable zsh when I need to l but I love nu so much I might go ahead and look into coming up with the stuff I miss myself.

      • fartsparkles@sh.itjust.works
        5·
        9 months ago

        It’s incredible, isn’t it? I’m already working on plugins for a variety of tasks so I can fire things off for malware analysis, push tables to data stores, and more. It’s such an obvious evolution of POSIX, I’m surprised it’s not already a standard across all shells.

        • Lupec@lemm.ee
          5·
          9 months ago

          Yup, it legit changed how I think about interacting with a shell. I’ve always been kinda terrible at actually learning stuff like awk, sed and company on the long term without needing half a dozen Google searches before they mostly do what I want so actually being able to perform complex operations on whatever input on the fly feels incredible!
          It helps so much with API development as well, I’ve been using it on a side project and having a built-in http client plus auto JSON parsing feels ergonomic in ways that just make me giddy lol.

    • theshatterstone54@feddit.uk
      31·
      9 months ago

      Sometimes I do some one liners when in a shell, and neither of these are POSIX compliant. That’s why I just stick to my customised zsh that basically does the same as fish.

      • fartsparkles@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        9 months ago

        You’re absolutely right. Fish isn’t really for scripting but is great for purely interactive use.

        Nushell however offers a totally different approach to “scripting” and I can achieve far more in a nushell one-liner than I ever could in a POSIX shell as it’s far more comparable to Python Pandas than a shell.

        For instance I can plot a line chart of file modifications over time directly in the shell with a single line of nushell. It’s mind blowing.

        • nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
          3·
          9 months ago

          That’s great. I’m glad you like it and it sounds pretty awesome. It adds more variety to the command line, which is a beautiful thing. However, I do too much with remote systems that I don’t “own”, however, so, POSIX, for me, is a hard requirement - adding another domain specific language that I can only sometimes use is not worth the cognitive load for me.

          • fartsparkles@sh.itjust.works
            3·
            9 months ago

            That’s totally understandable. And I’ll admit, I’m still writing a fair few #!/bin/sh headed scripts as I to work on too POSIX systems. I think we’re a long long way off of the POSIX standard being superseded by something else.

      • lemmesay@discuss.tchncs.de
        15·
        9 months ago

        not actually. I also use many programs that are MIT or BSD licensed.

        it’s just that replacing working GPL’d programs with MIT ones might be more appealing to corporations than someone like me who cares as much about ideology as the programmes themselves.

        I don’t wish to see services being sucked for their value by corporates who give little to nothing in return. history is replete with such instances.

        • Linus_Torvalds@lemmy.world
          4·
          9 months ago

          I do understand your scepticism towards companies; the reason for my question was that I got the impression from your first comment that you don’t like/install MIT code and was just confused as to why someone might dislike that.

    • Rob Bos@lemmy.ca
      13·
      9 months ago

      It would be cool if the GNU project sponsored a new updated ‘standard’ set of tools though.

      • dsemy@lemm.eeEnglish
        131·
        9 months ago

        Why would they? The “old” tools work very well, are well known and are likely used in millions of scripts.

        The new tools will have more bugs, unfamiliar options and unexpected behavior (due to them being new), and the improvements current “modern” alternatives bring to the table are often very minor.

        • Rob Bos@lemmy.ca
          1·
          9 months ago

          I’d expect they’d ‘adopt’ the tools and redistribute them under the GPL, if they did.

    • Schmeckinger@feddit.de
      11·
      9 months ago

      Probably because that’s basically the default license rust projects use and a lot of this stuff is made in rust.

  • simonced@lemmy.oneEnglish
    14·
    9 months ago

    Great list, but a couple could be added:

    • btop (process/resouces monitor, highly customizable)
    • lnav (log navigator, grouping folder of files in one display, search/filter etc…)
    • xcjs@programming.dev
      12·
      9 months ago

      Rust specializes in making parallel processing secure and approachable, so it’s going get used in problems where parallel processing and efficiency matter.

      Rust is also now allowed to be used in the Linux kernel for the same reasons, which is exciting!

  • bundes_sheep@lemmy.one
    11·
    9 months ago

    Are these built to handle pipes? If I bat a file and redirect it to a file, does it work as expected or does it add in the escape sequences for the colors, for example?

    • Phi@feddit.de
      8·
      9 months ago

      bat foo | bar behaves like cat foo | bar same with > and such.

  • george@lemmy.org.il
    8·
    9 months ago

    Oh broot is really cool. Better than exa --tree, because it has that sweet “xxx hidden” thing. This command makes it pretty close to tree, as it prints it out rather than present you with an interactive screen, which I’m not interested at:

    broot --sort-by-type-dirs-first --cmd :print_tree
  • dorumon@lemm.ee
    5·
    9 months ago

    These programs are actually really cool and I un-ironically want to use them.