Xonsh
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
2recommend
0warn against
Feb 27, 2026first mention
Oct 19, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“Xonsh: https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh is another very powerful shell but with a different design philosophy.”
“I would love to be able to use Xonsh [1] as a daily driver for exactly the reasons stated.”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
Often compared with
Threads where it came up
- Nushell – A New Type of Shell 1 mention
- The tilde in your PATH may not be your HOME 1 mention
- Eschewing Zshell for Emacs Shell (2014) 1 mention
Also written as xonsh. Data: xonsh.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 3
“Xonsh: https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh is another very powerful shell but with a different design philosophy.”
“I would love to be able to use Xonsh [1] as a daily driver for exactly the reasons stated.”
“the one I last more is xonsh”