Friendly Interactive SHell

Continuing my blog theme on repl’s whats more appropriate than a blog about shells! Thus far I have been using zsh with oh my zsh. In itself zsh is good however it had gotten noticeably slow. I attribute this to the git plugin.

Enter Friendly Interactive SHell! In simple words - fish:zsh::zsh:sh.

I no longer need to muck around config files, fish_config is a shining example of how CLI applications should handle configuration. Here’s a screenshot of fish_config

Combine this with fisherman you have a very responsive and a very user friendly shell.