fish

Best for

People who want a more helpful terminal without assembling a zsh plugin stack.

Why it deserves attention

fish gives you history-based autosuggestions, syntax highlighting, and completions with descriptions the moment you install it, without a plugin manager or configuration framework. Its scripting syntax is intentionally different from POSIX sh, which makes it pleasant interactively but means existing bash scripts need a shebang or a compatibility layer. It runs on macOS and Linux, is GPL-2.0 licensed, and has 34,000 GitHub stars. It pairs well with any terminal emulator; the trade-off is that bash snippets from the internet often need translation.

Can replace

• zsh

Related and alternatives

• Starship
• fzf

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