Hacker News Reader

HNHacker News

Top New Best Ask Show Jobs

Comment by moomin | Hacker News Reader

Full thread

moomin·

Or use starship...

View on HN

There is also powerline. https://github.com/powerline/powerline

What is starship?

Edit: Found it, it’s a cross-shell prompt. Appears to require a binary install.

https://starship.rs/

https://github.com/starship/starship

It's too bloated. It has all kinds of built-in stuff with ugly defaults instead of just providing a framework with plugins.

It can be configured and the default has to be something. The main problem is that it’s just too slow, at least in my experience. Even stripped of some bloat it can take >1s to get the prompt printed. Not worth it, at all.

This has not been my experience at all.

Then again, I only use 5 of all the plugins available.

Same experience. It also hurts me that support for so many things is baked-in!

If you like framework and plugins, try my own angel-PS1.

https://github.com/dolmen/angel-PS1

Great job! Thank you!

Contrary to Starship, angel-PS1 gets all static information at startup time (ex: hostname, username) and rebuilds only the dynamic information. And for that dynamic information it uses an angel companion instead of forking and loading the configuration file for every prompt display.

Starship is the only prompt I've used that has (a) sane defaults, (b) cross platform support as well as ease of installation, and (c) good enough speed. Powerline is much slower, and I lose my serenity everytime I have to fiddle with dotfiles.

I just got

~/bin via v1.8.0 via v2.7.16 on (us-east-2) [1]

even on non-project folders and have no idea why that is being listed.

[1] emojis got lost in hn, but it was a coffee cup, a snake and a cloud..

https://starship.rs/config/#default-prompt-format

Reply on news.ycombinator.com