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Recently switched from using Z-Shell for the past decade to Fish [1].

When paired with the Fisher plugin manager [2] and the Tide prompt plugin [3], it's been a much more pleasant experience than I was expecting.

Like many before me, I have synthesized my setup into a bootstrap script I can run on a brand-new mac and everything Just Works™—you can find it here, though I recommend you use it for reference and not for your personal setup, as it is very opinionated and changing often: https://github.com/sds/.files?tab=readme-ov-file#dot-files

It's a pretty stark departure from my prior solution, but after a decade the YAGNI principle [4] has really rung true for me—I spent far too much time making my configuration framework [5] customizable to an unnecessary degree.

[1] https://fishshell.com/
[2] https://github.com/jorgebucaran/fisher
[3] https://github.com/IlanCosman/tide
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_aren%27t_gonna_need_it
[5] https://github.com/sds/dot

Fish just released their rewrite in Rust! A Herculean effort—very impressive.

Fish just released their rewrite in Rust! A Herculean effort—very impressive.

https://fishshell.com/blog/rustport/

Building @warpcast and @farcaster. Previously Coinbase, Brigade, Causes.

Such a great read and shows an interesting line in the sand that was hard to quantify until reading this post. C++ and Java, etc are enterprise optimized languages; Rust, Ruby, etc are community optimized languages.

They are getting more developer contributions now, so seems like a win. 

They also explain that the LOC increase is due to the formatter they were using. Some of the ported code was also a straight up translation rather than idiomatic Rust.

+50% LOC
"memory use has a slightly higher floor but lower ceiling"
"performance is usually slightly better"

lmao was it worth it 😭