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I used fish for at least a year, maybe more. I eventually switched away to zsh. Whichever theme I used, rendering the status of git repos took ages, and the breaks from Bash syntax were just a bit too much.

I loved the overall friendliness though, it was a genuine pleasure to use for the most part. I hope to use it as my default shell again some time in the future.

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> Whichever theme I used, rendering the status of git repos took ages I don't think this is fish's issue. In fact, this will happen in any shell (bash / zsh) if your git repo is big. The solution is either (0) speed up `git status`-like commands by enable git cache, or (1) use async showing git repo status just like prezto.

Would you mind elaborating a bit? When I switched to zsh I started with oh-my-zsh but soon uninstalled it as it was too much for my needs. I started again with simple .zshrc file and I'm hesitant to going back to frameworks like prezto but working on a really big project in git slows down zsh noticeably.

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