GitHub – nushell/nushell: A new type of shell
Thinking this is so cool! I was wondering if seriously buying into an alternate shell like this would be worth it in the long run.<p>Would really love to read from people who use(d) an alternative shell, both success and failure stories.<p>I cannot shake from my head the idea that buying into a non-standard shell will only work for personal projects in one's own workstation, but it won't fly too far for company work because you'd then be introducing an implicit dependency on your special snowflake non-standard runtime. Which is something we came to accept and assume for interpreted languages (Python, Ruby, Node, etc.) but I'm not yet ready to assume for shell scripts.<p>So right when I was going to test Nushell, I discover there are also other shells like Elvish [0] and Oil which supports structured data [1]. Now on top of my hesitations I'm adding decision paralysis :-]<p>[0]: <a href="https://elv.sh/" rel="nofollow">https://elv.sh/</a><p>[1]: <a href="https://www.oilshell.org/" rel="nofollow">https://www.oilshell.org/</a><p>Lots more shells: <a href="https://github.com/oilshell/oil/wiki/Alternative-Shells" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/oilshell/oil/wiki/Alternative-Shells</a>