[shawndellysse]

`fish` is amazing. I used to have a big old dotfiles repo, but nowadays I add starship[0] to my env and I'm pretty much good to go.

On the non-interactive scripting front, I've found fish to be a very competent language for it, but you're right, the error handling (among other things) are lacking compared to "real" languages

[0]: https://starship.rs

[skyfaller]

I have to say, I use fish and I customize my prompt... is starship really necessary? I recognize starship is cross-shell, but if I standardize on installing fish on my machines, I'm not sure I need that feature.

Is there a "killer app" for starship that you can't get from writing out your prompt in a fish shell script?

Here's mine: https://github.com/maximum-ethics/linode-caddy/blob/master/r...

It's a 3-line prompt with a timestamp on the first line, my username@host + pwd on the 2nd line, and the actual prompt with the cursor on the 3rd line. I'm now considering swapping the timestamp to the right side after that possibility was mentioned in other comments in this thread.

[tokumei]

I’ve been using fish for years and I love it. I have a simple prompt and a few functions that I share between all of the environments I have.

[shepherdjerred]

I've had this experience as well. My zsh config was a monster. fish was extremely easy -- starship and ready to go.