Comment by wodenokoto 10 months ago
> too radical having to reimagine/replace/relearn almost everything
I switched to zsh because at the time I thought it had better autocomplete, but honestly I use it as I would bash. And I don't think it was worth it to change a little bit.
To change shell I think the change _should_ be radical.
Incompatible with what? Which obscure features? I can’t actually name them either
It's been several years since I've dug into it and implemented the features I cared about for my personal shell in bash, but I recall that implementing a function to determine if an item exists in an array is significantly shorter and easier in bash 5 due to a feature that is not present in zsh. Probably too obscure for most people to care about, but at the time I was maintaining some rather preposterous bash glue code that relied on that, and compensating for zsh on some people's machines was tedious.
Try fish or xonsh.