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28 mentions on Hacker News by 26 people: 5 stories, 23 comments · first 2016-10-31 · latest 2026-10-19

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  1. …bash scripts. Although LLMs take most of that pain away, NuShell may still have a place. Xonsh: https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh is another very powerful shell but with a different design philosophy.
    comment by farhanhubble · 2026-10-19 · in Nushell – A New Type of Shell
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    Xonsh shell 0.23 REFORGED – not just a release
    story by combisearch · 2026-04-21 · 1 comment
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    The Xonsh shell wrapped up 2024-2025 with impressive improvements
    story by ananany · 2025-12-10 · 3 comments
  4. …is known issue that is related to prompt-toolkit. You need to downgrade ptk version. Look here - https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/issues/5241#issuecomment-1961...
    comment by inshellwetrust · 2024-02-23 · in Xonsh: Python-powered, cross-platform, Unix-gazing shell
  5. …had to modify xontrib-fzf-widgets (because that itself failed often). Take a look at these issues: https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/issues/5190 https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/issues/5189 https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/issues/2404 (note that…
    comment by BeetleB · 2024-02-14 · in Xonsh: Python-powered, cross-platform, Unix-gazing shell
  6. Take a look at https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/issues before deciding to abandon the devil you know. I prefer sticking with bash where necessary (where a script is the only thing that will reasonably work), and elsewhere using a programming…
    comment by aphexairlines · 2024-02-14 · in Xonsh: Python-powered, cross-platform, Unix-gazing shell
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    Xonsh: Python-powered, cross-platform, Unix-gazing shell
    story by thunderbong · 2024-02-14 · 102 comments
  8. …untyped strings in shells in a bad old design Though hopefully xonsh will implement this as well https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/issues/3967
    comment by eviks · 2023-10-24 · in Marcel the Shell
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    Show HN: Xonsh – Python-Powered Shell
    story by hauxir · 2022-10-24 · 0 comments
  10. There's also xonsh[1], which is like a Python REPL and bash rolled into one. 1. https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh
    comment by hiyer · 2021-12-08 · in PowerShell Inventor Jeffrey Snover Interview
  11. …search for a Python-based shell and found Xonsh [0]; thought you might find it interesting. 0. https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh
    comment by iandinwoodie · 2021-09-10 · in I want a better shell (2019)
  12. There is also xonsh[0] if you want an similar experience to zx to mix bash and python. [0] -- https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh
    comment by wdroz · 2021-08-16 · in Zx 3.0
  13. What's wrong with https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh ?
    comment by hutrdvnj · 2021-05-09 · in Show HN: zxpy, a cleaner version of Google's zx
  14. …have nice things. [0]: https://github.com/oilshell/oil [1]: https://github.com/elves/elvish [2]: https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh [3]: https://github.com/neugram/ng
    comment by maddyboo · 2021-04-12 · in What was the point of [ “x$var” = “xval” ]?
  15. Xonsh seems like a more popular, maintained and viable approach to that: https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/
    comment by scrollaway · 2019-08-24 · in Introducing nushell
  16. …actually far more more tools created so far, for example - https://github.com/adamwiggins/rush - https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh Its amazing that people still try this nowdays that pwsh solved it for all.
    comment by majkinetor · 2019-05-20 · in Show HN: UXY – adding structure to Unix tools
  17. …with xonsh[0] as my default shell if coconut's pipe syntax were available! [0] https://xon.sh/ [1] https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/issues/1336
    comment by iamapipebomb · 2019-01-03 · in Coconut: Pythonic functional programming
  18. …hand, it's not actually compatible with Bash. So that devolved over time into what we have now. https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/blame/ebd4e597a3cf063b124e5a5... https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/blame/82cac3fff08b5cc26e421f1...…
    comment by BlaXpirit · 2018-09-15 · in Xonsh: Python-powered, cross-platform, Unix-gazing shell
  19. Filed https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/issues/2815 $ yes test | tee /tmp/xonsh.log $ wc -l /tmp/xonsh.log 208076 /tmp/xonsh.log bummer ctrl+c does eventually work several seconds later (about 10x slower) which is still a deal breaker as it…
    comment by jijojv · 2018-09-15 · in Xonsh: Python-powered, cross-platform, Unix-gazing shell
  20. Thanks, we've updated the link from https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh .
    comment by sctb · 2018-09-14 · in Xonsh: Python-powered, cross-platform, Unix-gazing shell
  21. Can you please open an issue detailing the problem? https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/issues I'd love to help make this work. I believe that the emacs folks have something that works for them
    comment by scopatz · 2018-09-14 · in Xonsh: Python-powered, cross-platform, Unix-gazing shell
  22. Note a couple of those use the .org tld. That is not a legitimate site, do not use that. Ref: https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/issues/1077
    comment by scrollaway · 2018-09-14 · in Xonsh: Python-powered, cross-platform, Unix-gazing shell
  23. …point in their design: - elvish: no ( https://github.com/elves/elvish/issues/193 ). - xonsh: no ( https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/issues/1959 ). - fish: no ( https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/238 ).
    comment by shellbackground · 2017-07-05 · in Elvish: friendly and expressive shell for Linux, macOS and BSDs
  24. You may be interested in https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh
    comment by ofek · 2017-07-01 · in Cicada – Unix shell written in Rust
  25. …its creation. Again if there are specific things, that you'd like to see, please let us know! [1] https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/issues [2] https://gitter.im/xonsh/xonsh [3] https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/pull/508 [4]…
    comment by scopatz · 2017-02-13 · in Ergonomica – A cross-platform shell written in Python
  26. …they couldn't walk in to a project and impose their stylistic preferences on everyone else. [1]: https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3A... [2]: https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/pull/512
    comment by adambrenecki · 2017-02-12 · in Ergonomica – A cross-platform shell written in Python
  27. There is also xonsh, pure python and works well. [0] - http://xon.sh/ [1] - https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh
    comment by avinassh · 2016-12-06 · in Write a Shell in C (2015)
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    Xonsh is a Python-ish, BASHwards-facing shell
    story by todd8 · 2016-10-31 · 0 comments