THthunderbong·Jun 27, 2026Submission
Reef: Paste bash into fish. It just works
2 points · Open discussionZStud
reef
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reef
Paste bash into fish. It just works.
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| Feb 9 | 2026-02-09 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-02-16 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Feb 16 | 2026-02-16 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-02-23 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 23 | 2026-02-23 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-03-02 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 2 | 2026-03-02 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-03-09 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 9 | 2026-03-09 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-03-16 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 16 | 2026-03-16 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-03-23 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 23 | 2026-03-23 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-03-30 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 30 | 2026-03-30 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-04-06 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 6 | 2026-04-06 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-04-13 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 13 | 2026-04-13 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-04-20 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 20 | 2026-04-20 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-04-27 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 27 | 2026-04-27 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-05-04 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 4 | 2026-05-04 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-05-11 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 11 | 2026-05-11 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-05-18 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 18 | 2026-05-18 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-05-25 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 25 | 2026-05-25 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 1 | 2026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-06-08 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 8 | 2026-06-08 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-06-15 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 15 | 2026-06-15 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-06-22 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 22 | 2026-06-22 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-06-29 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
3 sourcesReef: Paste bash into fish. It just works
19 points · Open discussionShow HN: Reef – Bash compatibility layer for Fish shell, written in Rust
Fish is the fastest, friendliest interactive shell, but it can't run bash
syntax, which has kept it niche for 20 years. Reef fixes this with a three-tier
approach: fish function wrappers for common keywords (export, unset, source),
a Rust-powered AST translator using conch-parser for structural syntax
(for/do/done, if/then/fi, $()), and a bash passthrough with env capture for
everything else.
251/251 bash constructs pass in the test suite. The slowest path (full bash
passthrough) takes ~3ms. The binary is 1.18MB.
The goal: install fish, install reef, never think about bash compatibility
again. Your muscle memory, Stack Overflow commands, and tool configs all just
work.
4 points · Open discussion