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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: 0.416s | source
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b0a04gl ◴[24 Jun 25 12:32 UTC] No.44365467[source]▶
every time your shell takes 100ms to render git status that you didn’t even need, you're paying invisible tax on flow. terminals should be reactive memory tools, not passive decoration. we optimize for code runtime but not for our own typing latency
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1. infogulch ◴[24 Jun 25 15:24 UTC] No.44367231[source]▶
Could prompt tools like this use TUI-style features to edit the displayed prompt after releasing it back to the user? So if kubectl, git, or aws cli takes 200ms to finish it doesn't matter, the data from the output of these commands will appear a few moments after the prompt has been released to the user, so the user doesn't feel like they're waiting for the prompt to be ready.