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Jan 30, 2025 · Operations
Fish Shell Rewritten in Rust: Progress and Insights
The Fish shell, a user‑friendly command‑line interface for Linux and macOS, is being completely rewritten in Rust after years of C++ development, with the 4.0 beta showing nearly 100 % Rust code, thousands of commits, major line‑count conversions, easier builds, removed ncurses dependency, new features, and only minor remaining CMake challenges.
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