I've been using Fish as my default shell for over a year now, and it's so pleasant.

I still write scripts and more complicated pipelines in Bash, which has made the switch easier.

Frequently featured, related /w discussion:

4.0 release (312 points, 11 months ago, 106 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43194024

Fish 4.0: The Fish of Theseus (906 points, 2024, 201 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42535217

Fishshell rewrite-it-in Rust progress: 100% (201 points, 2024, 21 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39002291

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Rewrite it in Rust (375 points, 2023, 464 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34588340

Fish 3.6 (186 points, 2023, 23 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34298157

Fish Shell 3.5 (160 points, 2022, 71 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31768405

Fish 3.4 (194 points, 2022, 90 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30734072 + (131 points, 2022, 21 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30660587

The fish shell is amazing (447 points, 2021, 290 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29341390

Found Fish while looking for the ability to edit commands in a more text-editor style since I frequently need to edit LLM prompts.