I am a huge fan of fish. Oil shell seems kind of different in aim from fish. Fish is trying primarily to be a great interactive shell and have code which is easy to understand but not necessarily compact of efficient to write. But for me it doesn’t matter. For longer things I use Julia or Go anyway.
Absolutely, hence "tangential". I was only hoping to lend credence to the idea that reinventing things is a good idea with a parallel example. I'm not the target audience of oil shell but I wish anyone who takes on something like that all the luck.
It has always baffled me the pushback that is given when someone works on projects like these. As if trying to do better isn't worth it.
