[cube2222]

Most things in fish can be achieved with customization and configuration in other shells, like zsh or bash.

The point of fish is a sane set of defaults that doesn't require customization and is good enough.

[mattgreenrocks]

Best feature of fish is the fact that my fish dotfiles are about 100loc max with a fully async prompt.

Comparable functionality in zsh would be 500loc of ultra obscure tweaks :)

[exikyut]

What do you mean by "fully async prompt"?

[mattgreenrocks]

https://github.com/mattgreen/lucid.fish

It avoids pauses when doing `git status` on gigantic repos.

[dizhn]

They are explicitly against configuration options though. Good luck if their opinions about what's sane doesn't match your own. By the way I have that feature in zsh myself. Quite useful.

[cube2222]

> Good luck if their opinions about what's sane doesn't match your own.

Thank you, and yes, that's when you don't use fish.

The point of fish is being for people who are fine with the defaults set by the authors. It's the core selling point.

[manimino]

If you want zsh that acts like fish, try "fizsh".

[copper-float]

That is so cool, people really think of everything don't they?

[oblio]

I checked fizsh out and the installation on Ubuntu was broken (from the package in the repo), the last commit to the repo was in 2016... It seemed promising at first but these things are all about continued investment and maintenance.