alt Hacker NewsIts almost ironical that we still use the Terminal - and many use it like in the eighties using Bash - and seem to have forgotten that we should invent a better terminal & shell than doing all the workarounds to handle the quirks of the current systems.
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bigstrat2003 • yesterday at 12:18 AM
We did! Nushell and Powershell are both so much better than bash that it's not even funny. There's zero reason to use a bash derivative in this day and age, they only persist through inertia + a minority of masochists actually like bash.
Make a better system, and we'll consider using it.
A Terminal + Bash/ZSH is soooo sticky because they are VERY good at what they do once you learn the basics and quirks. And now with LLMs, CLIs are even better because LLMs talk in text and CLIs talk in text.
Microsoft tried with PowerShell to design a better system; it "technically" is better, but not "better enough" to justify the cost of switching (on Linux). The same is true of nushell; it is "better", but not better enough to justify switching for most people.
I believe we're at "peak input method" until someone invents Brain<->Computer interfaces.