And my point is, this is not a “real shell”, in the sense of “default interactive shell”. It is an encapsulated system that works on its own. Basically like a programming language would be (speaking of programming language, there is also one for Python Xonsh). I don’t have a problem with this approach though, so don’t get me wrong, need to stress this enough. There are many implications here. If one likes this approach of replacing the entire Linux tools stack, its up to them.

However… just like with any other tool, I think Nushell is an excellent “enhancement” or “additional” tool to what I already use. Especially working with structured data can be very useful. Instead parsing the data myself or using other parser tools like jq or Python, Nushell could do this with all the features it provides. Even though I am not for replacing my own shell with this, I need to look closer to have it as an additional tool installed. From that angle, I see Nushell more like a programming language like AWK (yeah its a full language inside, I think Turing complete) or Python. But I’m not sure I really want to, because I like to share my solutions.