Do you have any beginner-to-intermediate learning resources for nushell?
I have it set up on my system and try dabbling with it every once in a while but it’s so different to my ash muscle memories that I bounce off a little.
I read through much of the docs and the cookbook but every time I actually try to use it for something productive I get tangled in minutiae of some issue or another, mostly around the data piping I think.
Did you have to break through a similar ‘barrier’ or did it instantly click for you when approaching nushell originally?
I got interested and hooked on the description, but hadn’t used it productively or made the switch. Trying to use it felt quite irritating. After a few instances like that (maybe three to five), I had something I wanted to do and committed to finding the appropriate commands and syntax. After one or two such cases, I felt more comfortable, and progression was much easier through needing and finding additional individual commands, etc.
Because it’s so different, there’s definitely a barrier, which I think is mainly the set of commands you have to know and, at times, data transformation flow (records vs tables vs lists, and the appropriate mental model to use the correct operations on them).
I didn’t use special resources or a full guide or introduction that was not the official docs.
Mainly official Nushell docs, command help/docs, web search, and at times LLMs.
Do you have any beginner-to-intermediate learning resources for nushell?
I have it set up on my system and try dabbling with it every once in a while but it’s so different to my ash muscle memories that I bounce off a little.
I read through much of the docs and the cookbook but every time I actually try to use it for something productive I get tangled in minutiae of some issue or another, mostly around the data piping I think.
Did you have to break through a similar ‘barrier’ or did it instantly click for you when approaching nushell originally?
Yeah, I experienced a similar barrier.
I got interested and hooked on the description, but hadn’t used it productively or made the switch. Trying to use it felt quite irritating. After a few instances like that (maybe three to five), I had something I wanted to do and committed to finding the appropriate commands and syntax. After one or two such cases, I felt more comfortable, and progression was much easier through needing and finding additional individual commands, etc.
Because it’s so different, there’s definitely a barrier, which I think is mainly the set of commands you have to know and, at times, data transformation flow (records vs tables vs lists, and the appropriate mental model to use the correct operations on them).
I didn’t use special resources or a full guide or introduction that was not the official docs.
Mainly official Nushell docs, command help/docs, web search, and at times LLMs.