zsh

“a zsh maxed up with so much bells and whistles that the terminal looks like Christmas”

“big shells like Bash and Zsh are brutal, especially with their random grab-bags of features”

“unquoted variables don't implicitly split into multiple arguments.”

“you'll eventually grant it to an interpreter (zsh, python3) and create a hole.”

“zsh is very powerful and customizable”

“Zsh history with fzf fuzzy searching is fantastic.”

“Running bash inside zsh continuously destroyed my history for the last 3 years”

“it has some really nice customizations”

“I've been living in Terminal.app / zsh / tmux / vim for 15 years”

“Both bash/zsh and powershell are enormously frustrating and quirky in real, practical tasks.”

“Turns out I really just wanted 2 features that are built into zsh”

“zsh has alias plugins pretty easy to migrate your dotfiles but yeah its too custom then”

“zsh + auto complete makes your life a lot easier”

“zsh + auto complete makes your life a lot easier and you won't forget the commands.”

“However, I consider this a minor disadvantage, because I have written the prompt many years ago”

“my zsh config grants me a sub 5ms prompt and a sub 1ms input lag”

“I can strongly recommend lazy loading in zsh in general”

“I used to spend a lot of time on getting ZSH both fast and feature-rich, and it's brittle.”

“I use c-q for prefix key because it doesn’t conflict with common zsh and vim bindings.”

“I know exactly where everything is, and `find` and associated aliases works perfectly”

“That search is a bit easier in bash/zsh than it is in most IDEs”

“Zsh's flexibility allows you to trigger a calculator”

“With zsh, I prefer to use alt-q which does this automatically”

“One thing I find life-changing is to remap the up arrow so that it does not iterates through all commands”

“it wasn't the default behaviour which immediately made me nope from the shell altogether”

“zsh has a bug where it doesn't do the job control cleanup properly in some cases”

“zsh with incremental history search and the like was good enough”

“The nice thing is that I can readily put them in a script if needed.”

“I think finding out about this is why I originally switched from bash to zsh several years ago.”

“on one laptop zsh took 600ms to start. I narrowed it down to a strange "bug"”

“I originally switched to ZSH + Oh My Shell because it opens so fast.”

“To edit long commands in $EDITOR you can always do C-x C-e in bash/zsh”

“Zsh has a lot of advanced stuff (at least for a shell) that can deliver pretty complex scripting”

“25 years in, I think I got it and i just keep my zshrc and machine-init.sh on point”

“In my experience default zsh settings are good enough and require very little customization.”

“some of the ways it tab completes when navigating the filesystem, and not by default allowing comments on the command line”

“before learning non-standard extensions in Korn, Bash, Zsh, et al.”

“at the moment I miss nothing in my zsh”

“Zsh has been more powerful than Bash for literally the entirety of the existence of both.”

“zsh and fish becoming powerful and way more popular/well-supported than they were before”