# In praise of Nushell

<https://lars.yencken.org/in-praise-of-nushell>

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## What Jamie wrote

I had not heard of [Nushell](https://www.nushell.sh) but I find it fun to read about new takes on foundational Unix tools. This one looks pretty cool. It is a significant break from the traditional look of a shell.

> Unlike bash or zsh, Nushell is built around the idea of structured data. It has a range of basic types including numeric types, strings, dictionaries and lists -- in short, the types a modern programming language is built on. It adds to them support for tables, which are built from any sequence of dictionaries.

Prett nifty! 🤓

## Facts

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## Appears in

- [WT279: Weekly Thing 279 / Nushell, BlackCat, Daemons](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/279/), Notable

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