Anybody switched from fish shell to this? What is your experience? I like fish shell because the preconfiguration is pretty good. Same on xon.sh or config hell like zsh?
Ugh. I have so many conflicting opinions on this question.
So, Xonsh is superior in the manipulation of shell objects. I felt super at home changing the shell prompt and configuring/extending the default Xonsh functionality. This is all because it's literally a superset of Python.
Fish however, blows Xonsh out of the water when it comes to autocomplete and navigation. Xonsh's autocomplete / suggestions are very very weak in comparison to fish's. You feel bogged down when trying to navigate directories quickly with Xonsh. I wrote a small blog post about it here [0]
There was a piece of software I was trying to write that was meant to be Xonsh but with Fish's autocomplete [1], but really didn't succeed and have slightly abandoned it for the time being. But maybe I'll pick it back up soon.
I work on fish, and one of the things that the upcoming fish 3.0 contains is a new `math` builtin (previously we shipped a function of that name that just wrapped `bc`).
So your math expressions here are interesting to me, because they work in math (with the caveat that `` is still the symbol for globbing, so it needs to be quoted or escaped):
$ math 0x113e8b3
18081971
$ math '719 * 114679'
82454201
Adding them to the core syntax carries backward-compatibility questions and also isn't really what fish is about.
The benefits of xonsh are more than just the quick math, but I'm glad fish is getting something like this. I've had a Python script that does math for me, something like this [0]
I do think something like a Python shell is the best solution (for me), however, simply because of the ease of use with modifying the current state of the shell (environment variables, etc).
