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Starship: A minimal, fast, and customizable prompt for any shell

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457 points benoitg | 1 comments | 24 Jun 25 11:11 UTC | HN request time: 0.212s | source
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voidUpdate ◴[24 Jun 25 12:14 UTC] No.44365306[source]▶
Does the speed of your shell matter? Surely the speed of the programs that you're running through your shell matter more. I've never been let down by how fast bash can tell a program to start running

EDIT: oh, i misunderstood, its just the prompt at the start of your shell... I dont think ive ever been annoyed at how fast that renders either

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1. mlenz ◴[24 Jun 25 12:16 UTC] No.44365338[source]▶
In this case it‘s about the actual startup time of your shell. When launching a new terminal, starship always need to perform its initialization. If it were slow, I wouldn’t use it because waiting seconds before being able to input anything is kind of annoying. That‘s what they’re referring to.