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> - Oh-my-zsh has a lot of plugins for auto-completion As does bash-completion, which is available in many (but not all :-/) Linux distros and via Homebrew on

> - Oh-my-zsh has a lot of plugins for auto-completion As does bash-completion, which is available in many (but not all :-/) Linux distros and via Homebrew on MacOS and [pre-dates](https://github.com/scop/bash-completion/tree/09b07d57a7031d904223b31c3a240adab0533546 https://github.com/scop/bash-completion/tree/09b07d57a7031d9...) [oh-my-zsh](https://github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/tree/5da20b9dddb1f7a9110675ded5df59c4c3ed1b83 https://github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/tree/5da20b9dddb1f7a91106...) by about 6 years. But, zsh users and oh-my-zsh fan-boys seem to be entirely ignorant of bash-completion.

sbarre 6y ago
I never understand comments like these. Why do you have to twist this to be about "ignorant fan boys"? Not enough drama in the world already?
- ti_ranger 6y ago
  Sorry, but I've read too many posts that say "bash sucks, it doesn't do <thing that bash has done for years before zsh did it> like zsh does".
  - sbarre 6y ago
    And there's a constructive way to respond to those posts, if you must absolutely respond. Yours ain't it.
    - dbtc 6y ago
      Ironic response.
      - sbarre 6y ago
        Fair point
- ti_ranger 6y ago
  Actually, maybe it's more the fact that at a prominent tech company: * zsh is the default shell on a large proportion of servers that have read-only /home, so you can't easily change to your preferred shell * a training guide that many new developers follows states incorrectly that: > If you are using Bash and you have the option of using ZSH, you should switch to it. ZSH has additional auto-complete and history features that Bash doesn’t have (but don't worry - those features will not be relevant to this tutorial.) oh-my-zsh seems to be recommended by a lot of developers in this company, even though: * the default mechanism to install is curl|sh (there is no Homebrew package) on developer machines which have privileged access to a lot of resources * installing it via its recommended installation procedure on dev machines would violate company policies, whereas installing bash-completion wouldn't

sbarre 6y ago

I never understand comments like these. Why do you have to twist this to be about "ignorant fan boys"? Not enough drama in the world already?

ti_ranger 6y ago
Sorry, but I've read too many posts that say "bash sucks, it doesn't do <thing that bash has done for years before zsh did it> like zsh does".
- sbarre 6y ago
  And there's a constructive way to respond to those posts, if you must absolutely respond. Yours ain't it.
  - dbtc 6y ago
    Ironic response.
    - sbarre 6y ago
      Fair point
ti_ranger 6y ago
Actually, maybe it's more the fact that at a prominent tech company: * zsh is the default shell on a large proportion of servers that have read-only /home, so you can't easily change to your preferred shell * a training guide that many new developers follows states incorrectly that: > If you are using Bash and you have the option of using ZSH, you should switch to it. ZSH has additional auto-complete and history features that Bash doesn’t have (but don't worry - those features will not be relevant to this tutorial.) oh-my-zsh seems to be recommended by a lot of developers in this company, even though: * the default mechanism to install is curl|sh (there is no Homebrew package) on developer machines which have privileged access to a lot of resources * installing it via its recommended installation procedure on dev machines would violate company policies, whereas installing bash-completion wouldn't