It’s its own language, but it doesn’t break existing e.g. bash scripts because you declare them to be bash with #!/bin/bash in the first line right? So your shell doesn’t matter. Also you can always nest shells and just run bash if you really need it
You just shouldn’t set it as your login shell because of that, they have tutorials on that on their website and the Arch wiki explains it too
@alsaaas @Gwen I’ve actually looked a bit into fish before, but didn’t switch
does the lack of posix compliance not cause issues in practice? like, has it ever broke some script you wanted to run?
It’s its own language, but it doesn’t break existing e.g. bash scripts because you declare them to be bash with #!/bin/bash in the first line right? So your shell doesn’t matter. Also you can always nest shells and just run
bashif you really need itYou just shouldn’t set it as your login shell because of that, they have tutorials on that on their website and the Arch wiki explains it too