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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: 0.204s | 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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Twirrim ◴[24 Jun 25 13:19 UTC] No.44365953[source]▶
Starship is very fast, taking only a couple of milliseconds to gather the data (and you can easily configure it to minimise what it'll spend time gathering). It's night and day compared to other ones I've tried, where the hundred millisecond-ish delays annoyed me.
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1. eddd-ddde ◴[24 Jun 25 23:11 UTC] No.44372064[source]▶
100ms to render a prompt are meaningless. You can just type commands and run them asynchronously. I do this all the time when a previous command is taking a little extra to complete but I already know what my next command is going to be.