nushell
Using it as a primary shell for daily tasks, Writing scripts to replace traditional shell scripting, Piping and transforming structured data
It's a modern shell that makes scripting and data pipelines easier, but lacks some advanced system features of traditional shells.
Replacing bash for tasks requiring integrated async background job support
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What people reported, in their own words. Every line links to where it was said.
“my favorite way to spawn jobs, is well, the job spawn command in nushell”
POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-02
“nushell + 1. After ~20 years of bash+zsh, I'm translating all my scripts to nu.”
POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-04-30
“nushell is awesome! It helped me to automate so many more things than I did with any other shell. The syntax is so much more intuitive and coherent, which really helps a lot for someone who always forgot how to write ifs or loops in bash”
POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-03-27
“I switched to nushell and you couldn't pay me to go back to bash”
POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-03-27
“Nushell is great because it is really "battery included" in the sense that it ships with most of what you will ever need”
POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-03-16
“As a developer who lives in the terminal (Arch/Nushell), I wanted something that felt like a CLI tool and respected my hardware.”
POSITIVE · Hacker News · 2026-01-25
“nushell just does things differently (and in a much more sane way with pipes)”
POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-01-10
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