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To be fair, the flattering comparison table should come with things like "Natively supported by the OS" or "Large community support", for which xonsh would obviously be at a disadvantage compared to other shells.

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While I have little basis for technical disagreement with your statement, I still think the attitude of "not used much - can't adopt it" is detrimental to FOSS in general and to high-touch "hand tools" such as shells in particular. How else will we discover new stuff if we won't venture out into the unknown? :)

I agree completely, I'm just saying it's a factor that should be considered, like many others, when making a comparisons with other shells.

Totally agree that the comparison table is flattering. The purpose of the front page for a project is to make it look good. This is one of the few places a project has that opportunity. Happy to update it if you notice any thing wrong or would like to see additional rows or columns.

Zsh has a plugin for syntax highlighting: https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting

Personally, I think fish is at least as much of a pun as plumbum.

> "Natively supported by the OS"

But this all depends on the OS; OS X only gives you an old version of BASH as the default shell and OpenBSD (and possibly other BSDs) require installing BASH through the ports tree.

OSX also comes with zsh. I haven't looked in a while, but last time I checked, the version of zsh was significantly newer than the version of BASH, because of the GPL issues around Bash.

Python doesn't have large community support?

The comparison table however demonstrates its bias accurately, with metrics like "pun in name".

Its there for humor, not a serious comparison tool. And I can respect that.

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