Nu is great. Using it since many years. Clearly superior shell. Only problem is, that it constantly faces breaking changes and you therefore need to frequently update your modules.

[–] coldsideofyourpillow@lemmy.cafe 4 points 1 day ago

Not a problem for me in Nix, seems like a skill issue ~/j~

[–] traches@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

They’ve slowed down with those a bit recently, haven’t they?

[–] Akito@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yesterday, I upgraded from 0.101.0 to 0.102.0 and date to-table was replaced equally (actually better) with into record, however it was not documented well in the error. Had to research for 5 to 10 minutes, which does not sound much, but if you get this like every second version, the amount of time adds up quickly.

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Actually had been deprecated beforehand, you should have gotten a warning. The deprecation cycle certainly is quite short, I'm still on 0.100.0, If I were to upgrade now I'd jump the version with the warning.

[–] Akito@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

Yes, I switched to an older version and there was the warning. However, there was no warning on 0.101.0 whatsoever, so upgrading just one patch version broke my master module.

Sometimes, I skip some versions, so I am certain, that I jumped from < 0.100.0 straight to 0.101.0 and here we are, without any deprecation warning.

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Not really. They've been on the stabilising path for about two years now, removing stuff like dataframes from the default feature set to be able to focus on stabilising the whole core language, but 1.0 isn't out yet and the minor version just went three digits.

And it's good that way. The POSIX CLI is a clusterfuck because it got standardised before it got stabilised. dd's syntax is just the peak of the iceberg, there, you gotta take out the nail scissors and manicure the whole lawn before promising that things won't change.

Even in its current state it's probably less work for many scripts, though. That is, updating things, especially if you version-lock (hello, nixos) will be less of a headache than writing sh could ever be. nushell is a really nice language, occasionally a bit verbose but never in the boilerplate for boilerplate's sake way, but in the "In two weeks I'll be glad it's not perl" way. Things like command line parsing are ludicrously convenient (though please nushell people land collecting repeated arguments into lists).

[–] Akito@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

Fully agree on this. I do not say, it's bad. I love innovation and this is what I love about Nushell. Just saying, that using it at work might not always be the best idea. ;)