Apple makes zsh default shell on macOS

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This isn&#x27;t going to fix the fact that they are shipping a 12 years old version of bash. How many scripts with `#!&#x2F;usr&#x2F;bin&#x2F;env bash` are there out there?<p>Bash is the least worst language for bootstrapping since the alternative is POSIX shell which is even more difficult to get right.<p>The biggest issue is that Bash 3.x arrays don&#x27;t work well with `set -u`.

I thought everyone was using the fish shell on the Mac. :)<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;fishshell.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;fishshell.com&#x2F;</a>

I can recommend the GRML ZSH config to go with ZSH <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;grml.org&#x2F;zsh&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;grml.org&#x2F;zsh&#x2F;</a><p>Works out-of-the-box for me on most machines (i.e. I don&#x27;t maintain shell settings besides downloadding GRML zsh regularly) and it is not as big as oh-my-zsh.

Is there any news on if apple is keeping python 2 and&#x2F;or adding 3 by default?

If you like zsh, you should check out the &quot;oh-my-zsh&quot; addon, which features 200+ optional plugins (rails, git, OSX, hub, capistrano, brew, ant, php, python, etc), over 140 themes to spice up your morning, and an auto-update tool:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;robbyrussell&#x2F;oh-my-zsh" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;robbyrussell&#x2F;oh-my-zsh</a>

No surprise. This has been coming for a long time.

it doesn&#x27;t say why. is it a BSD vs GNU thing?

It should have been fish shell. :(