i need to get familiar with fish. i’ve studied the syntax but i still have hardly used it, and if you really want to learn how to code something, you gotta keep typing it until it’s in your muscle memory.
Python is my #1 language. It’s the one I always code in. But I also know javascript and bash/zsh (also Ruby but I haven’t written any ruby for years, so I’d need a refresher)
At my previous job, I had only barebones beginner skills in Java and absolutely no idea of Java EE when I started. I reckon you’d get back in the flow with Ruby quickly enough.
While I do like fish syntax, you don’t really need to learn it. You can just use it for your interactive use in the terminal while writing your scripts in bash.
This is the way. I’ve never even attempted to script anything in fish, but it’s just a great interactive shell OOTB. I think at most I have a colorscheme and an alias or 2.
Scripting in fish is so much better than bash, holy. Reduced my scripts’ LOC by probably 50% and made them actually legible when coming back to them 6 months later. I converted all my personal scripts from bash to fish.
Scripting in fish is so much better than bash, holy. Reduced my scripts’ LOC by probably 50% and made them actually legible when coming back to them 6 months later. I converted all my personal scripts from bash to fish.
I tried using zsh again after having used fish for a while, but I just couldn’t do it. Trying to configure the ergonomics that fish ships OOTB into zsh was a pain, and I couldn’t get it to a satisfactory level.
Regarding scripts, you don’t have to use the fish scripting language. Just keep writing your scripts in Bash, and as long as you use a shebang, it’ll work fine in fish.
i need to get familiar with fish. i’ve studied the syntax but i still have hardly used it, and if you really want to learn how to code something, you gotta keep typing it until it’s in your muscle memory.
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Then you’ll know Python. Something companies hire for.
Python is my #1 language. It’s the one I always code in. But I also know javascript and bash/zsh (also Ruby but I haven’t written any ruby for years, so I’d need a refresher)
At my previous job, I had only barebones beginner skills in Java and absolutely no idea of Java EE when I started. I reckon you’d get back in the flow with Ruby quickly enough.
But also, python is nice.
While I do like fish syntax, you don’t really need to learn it. You can just use it for your interactive use in the terminal while writing your scripts in bash.
Converting my scripts from bash to fish has definitely been worth the time.
This is the way. I’ve never even attempted to script anything in
fish, but it’s just a great interactive shell OOTB. I think at most I have a colorscheme and an alias or 2.Scripting in fish is so much better than bash, holy. Reduced my scripts’ LOC by probably 50% and made them actually legible when coming back to them 6 months later. I converted all my personal scripts from bash to fish.
this is basically what I did until I dropped fish for zsh because of annoyances with how it functioned.
Scripting in fish is obnoxious though if you learned bash first, heavily recommend staying far away 😂
Hard recommend staying in bash or at least zsh, at least you maintain compatibility with others if you ever decided to share your scripts.
Scripting in fish is so much better than bash, holy. Reduced my scripts’ LOC by probably 50% and made them actually legible when coming back to them 6 months later. I converted all my personal scripts from bash to fish.
What makes it “obnoxious”??
I tried using zsh again after having used fish for a while, but I just couldn’t do it. Trying to configure the ergonomics that fish ships OOTB into zsh was a pain, and I couldn’t get it to a satisfactory level.
Regarding scripts, you don’t have to use the fish scripting language. Just keep writing your scripts in Bash, and as long as you use a shebang, it’ll work fine in fish.
Yeah, that was what I was saying it wasn’t super clear. I was saying, just keep your scripts in Bash because it has better compatibility 👀
Yeah that’s what I do to, I don’t need to write complex scripts anyway. Fish’s syntax seems interesting though.