# Nushell, after 8 months

DevFeed: [Nushell, after 8 months](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/nushell-after-8-months-31883.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://okmanideep.me/nushell-after-8-months/>)

Author: Manideep Polireddi

Published: 2024-04-29T11:15:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [@okmanideep](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/okmanideep.md>)

Topics: [Shell](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/shell.md>), [Command-line interface](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cli.md>), [Programming](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/programming.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>)

Tags: [bash](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/bash.md>), [cli](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cli.md>), [csv](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/csv.md>), [json](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/json.md>), [nushell](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/nushell.md>), [powershell](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/powershell.md>), [shell](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/shell.md>), [sqlite](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sqlite.md>), [yaml](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/yaml.md>), [zsh](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/zsh.md>)

## AI overview

The author reflects on using Nushell as their primary shell for eight months. They find its table-based structured data model useful for CLI work, data wrangling, Kubernetes commands, and processing formats such as CSV, JSON, YAML, TOML, and SQLite, while reporting few problems interoperating with Unix programs that expect plain text.

## Source excerpt

I have been using nushell as my primary shell for the last 8 months and I don't see myself going back to bash or zsh or powershell