Rust Port for Fish Shell Is Almost Ready for a Beta Release

sometimes i have to chuckle when reading headlines on here.<p>if someone has no IT knowledge, or maybe just doesn&#x27;t know rust or fish, &quot;Rust Port for Fish Shell&quot; is probably undecipherable. Doesn&#x27;t even sound like something related to IT.<p>since when do fish have shells and why is the port rusty, and why do these fish even need a port?!?

Ive used fish for half a decade. It just works and the design just makes sense. Excited to try this out.

I get the value of Rust, if not the extreme enthusiasm surrounding it sometimes.<p>With regard to a larger project like this, I&#x27;m more interested in is the buy-in of the major contributors of of the fish shell. Are they all in on it? Is it just decided that leaving a few behind and losing their deep knowledge is worth it?<p>All of these &quot;Rewrite in xyz&quot; strike me as impractical, but it&#x27;s never my place to tell someone to stop the impractical.

Discussed yesterday at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=41098931">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=41098931</a>

Fish migration to Rust seems to be one of the biggest rewrite out there from C++ to Rust.