Honestly? Bash. I tried a bunch a few years back and eventually settled back on bash.

Fish was really nice in a lot of ways, but the incompatibilities with normal POSIX workflows threw me off regularly. The tradeoff ended up with me moving off of it.

I liked the extensibility of zsh, except that I found it would get slow with only a few bits from ohmyzsh installed. My terminal did cool things but too slowly for me to find it acceptable.

Dash was the opposite, too feature light for me to be able to use efficiently. It didn’t even have tab completion. I suffered that week.

Bash sits in a middle ground of usability, performance, and extensibility that just works for me. It has enough features to work well out of the box, I can add enough in my bashrc to ease some workflows for myself, and it’s basically instantaneous when I open a terminal or run simple commands.

There’s been some controversy around the governance structure and culture with NixOS that has a number of people unhappy. I’m honestly not sure of the details but it’s ptesumably less about the software than the people.

Areweideyet is super out of date. It shows that rust is pretty IDE at this point, but the ecosystem has changed quite a bit. Most notably racer has been replaced by rust-analyzer basically everywhere, and most code editors can trivially hook into it for extensive LSP support.

I’m debating making a PR to update stuff but the maintainer looks pretty inactive. Also the changes would either be pretty extensive or replacing the whole thing with “yep.”

Ruff is super nice, the speed increase means that I no need to wait a second after saving a file to make sure my linter or formatter don’t confuse me.

Python packaging is kind of a mess where each tool that solves a problem also feels like it bogs down the process. It doesn’t help that I need multiple tools to manage both my python and package versions. It sounds like uv isn’t far enough along for me to bother with yet, but it also has a goal and team behind it that make me optimistic that this isn’t just another packager to throw on the pile.

I picked up Binding of Isaac: Rebirth and have been doing runs now and then. I played the original when it first came out and couldn’t get into it; the years of development seem to have done it a lot of good, feels much more playable than I remember.