You probably already know about the popular shells like bash and zsh. Let us explore some interesting and unique shells.

  1. Fish Shell

  2. Nushell

  3. Dune

  4. Xonsh

  5. Hilbish

  6. Elvish

  7. Oh

  8. Solidity

  9. Yash

  • Yuu Yin
    8•1 year ago

    I use nushell for my terminal/console (alacritty). For POSIX compability, mksh; I set it as SHELL so programs, which expect/assume POSIX, use it instead of nu. This is the way to have best of both worlds.

    • binarypie
      3•1 year ago

      I’ve been eyeing nushell but it’s such a departure from posix that it just never sticks. How did you make the switch?

      • Yuu Yin
        4•1 year ago

        It is because it departs from POSIX that it is good; I recognize the syntax for some functionality is cumbersome and hard to remember though. There are similarities like command names and piping still…

        I use NixOS and home-manager, so for switching I just

          home-manager.users.yuu = {
    programs.nushell = {
      package = pkgs-update.nushell;
      enable = true;
      configFile.source = ../../config/nushell/config.nu;
      envFile.source = ../../config/nushell/env.nu;  
    };
  };

        The config.nu and env.nu is basically the default just with a customized prompt.

        Then in my alacritty.ylm I set shell to the nu binary

        shell:
  program: /etc/profiles/per-user/yuu/bin/nu

        Also learned from official resources https://www.nushell.sh/book. When I have doubts, I ask either on Nushell’s GitHub discussions or https://matrix.to/#/#nushell:matrix.org

        And to keep a POSIX shell

        {
  environment = {
    systemPackages = with pkgs; [
      mksh
    ];

    sessionVariables = rec {
      TERM = "alacritty";
      TERMINAL = "alacritty";
      SHELL = "${pkgs.mksh}/bin/mksh";
    };

  environment.shells = [
    "${pkgs.mksh}/bin/mksh"
  ];
}
        • Sr Estegosaurio
          3•1 year ago

          I’m a simple person, I see Nix I upvote.

          Thanks for the comment, I may copy some stuff. :p

          • Yuu Yin
            3•1 year ago

            You’re a person of culture as well I see; I upvote comments of culture yes📠

            I remember talking with you at the NixOS matrix; nice to see you here as well💖✨✨✨🌠