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I'm not trying to change your opinion, just curious: what is the reason for wanting POSIX compliance? You often share scripts? Dotfiles perhaps?
I am shitty at shell scripting, so I often use other people's scripts from the internet with some minor tweaks. I've also put a lot of time into learning the nuances of zsh so there is also a lot of the sunk cost effect going on.
Also, and this is an assumption, I think other shells just have a lot more online resources you know? I have not yet found any problems or ideas I've had that someone else haven't also had and solved.
Cool, thanks, that explained everything for me. 😁
Fish isn’t posix compliant, so some scripts I use had issues. I'll play devil's advocate, why do you like fish? :)
I like fish because it requires no setup to be nice to use and the scripting is more intuitive when not doing it constantly.
I just rewrote all of my scripts in idiomatic fish. 😄
It made my scripts 50% shorter on average, and 100% more legible. Short and simple. The code is easier to read and maintain, IMO. Less magic syntax that you need to look up in the bash manual* every dang time. You come back to your scripts after a few years and you just instantly can see what they do, without comments.
(*) Speaking of the manual. The bash manual is quite long. And the zsh manual is a f—ing mess, split up into so many sections, and the thing I want to find is never where I first look, so I just go into the zsh "all" manual, which is humongous and difficult to navigate, basically just a
catof all the different zsh manuals.Fish has a short and sweet manual because the language is very small, and every command has its own manual page as well, which just makes sense on some level. Also it's available as a web page by typing
help. Very convenient.Very well thought out. 👌