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Xonsh Review

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Pros

Endi Sukaj
Kossak

Pro
Easy to understand, Python-like syntax

Xonsh uses a syntax which is a superset of Python 3.4 plus some additional shell primitives. Because of the similarity to Python, which is famously an easy to understand programming language, the syntax of Xonsh is pretty easy to grasp too, even more so for Python programmers.

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Cross platform support

Xonsh has native cross-platform support.

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Christopher Patti

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Command history on steroids - including output

Xonsh has one feature that can be considered particularly unique. It stores not just the commands you type, but their output, and doing a search on your history (configurably) can search the output as well.

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