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Rob OLeary

This seems like a burgeoning space atm!

There is fig.io which has similar features and is Mac only too. The driving force seems to improve DX (Developer Experiences), bring more IDE-esque experience to the terminal.

The linux crowd are approaching it differently e.g. nushell. The focus is more on improving data processing. Support data formats such as json and xml as first class citizens, offer better error reporting, and parallelism.

Personally, I am more excited by the latter. Improved DX might make the terminal more approachable for newcomers, and easier to use in the long-run for others. There are decent solutions for autocompletion and history searching in other shells.

The fish shell had the objective of making shells more user friendly and it still receives quite a bit of flak! It could be kind of a cautionary tale for warp, I guess?

Zsh seems to be having a second wind. I think Oh my Zosh solved the user friendliness of Z Shell for many folks. And with Mac making its default shell, its got a wider audience.

I mostly use Zsh (bash sometimes), and I would be slow to switch.

I wish you success with the project.

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