Gamma

Single quotes don’t allow any escaping in shell, you need

'I don'\''t know what you mean, I'\''ve never encountered any annoyances'

Or, in Zsh with setopt rcquotes:

'I don''t know what you mean, I''ve never encountered any annoyances'

Nothings bad about it. I don’t think it’s strictly better or worse. Just

• I’m used to it
• The comparison in the video was just disingenuous.

I get annoyed by differences with (Ba|Z)sh when I try Fish, but nushell is so much its own thing that it’s fun.

Scrubbing through the video, this hurts my soul

echo $(echo $STRING | sed 's/World/Bash/')

For variables bash has PE forms:

echo ${STRING/World/Bash}

I miss these too much when I try Fish.

string split/collect and similar can’t work unless its a builtin. The set foo ( ...... | string ... ) pattern couldn’t work if string was an external binary.

Steam has always had a Linux Runtime for that exact reason.

I’ve always considered it to be such that the whole thing is simultaneously a joke and true (haha jk, unless?), or maybe just hyperbole. But I’ve avoided using it myself because clearly it gets misinterpreted way too frequently

Not as cursed as

print("eovdedn"[n%2::2]) 

I don’t fit into any of those categories.

Its obtuse, old, and doesn’t have a lot of functionality of modern code editors

Obtuse? Yeah. The keyboard focus means natural discoverability is low. But I immediately preferred modal editing once I learned it.

Old? Eh, most people use Neovim nowadays and write plugins in lua. Even in OG Vim, Vim9script broke compatibility for a better dev experience.

Functionality? Out of the box, it is just a text editor. But only VSCode might have a more active plugin ecosystem. ALE has been a thing for ages if it’s LSP support you’re looking for.

It’s not better, it’s not worse, I’m not in any way superior for using it, but I love it for a reason.