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Janetsh vs Starship (Shell Prompt): What are the differences?
Developers describe Janetsh as "A system shell that uses the Janet Programming Language". High-level scripting while also supporting the things we love about sh. Minimal knowledge of Janet is required for basic shell usage, but know that as you become more familiar with Janet. On the other hand, Starship (Shell Prompt) is detailed as "Extremely customizable prompt for any shell". Starship is the minimal, blazing fast, and extremely customizable prompt for any shell! The prompt shows information you need while you're working, while staying sleek and out of the way.
Janetsh and Starship (Shell Prompt) can be categorized as "Shell Utilities" tools.
Some of the features offered by Janetsh are:
- A powerful standard library
- Functional and imperative programming
- Powerful lisp macros
On the other hand, Starship (Shell Prompt) provides the following key features:
- Prompt character turns red if the last command exits with non-zero code
- Current username if not the same as the logged-in user
- Current Node.js version
Janetsh and Starship (Shell Prompt) are both open source tools. Starship (Shell Prompt) with 2.51K GitHub stars and 77 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Janetsh with 297 GitHub stars and 8 GitHub forks.
Pros of Janetsh
Pros of Starship (Shell Prompt)
- Cross-shell2
- Cross-platform1
- Multi-threaded1
- Configurable1
- Excellent documentation1
- Docs localized to Japanese1
- Quick setup1