6 alternatives to nushell

nushell/nushell — A new type of shell (40,718 stars, MIT, dev-tools, ui, database).

These are the closest projects in the JustClaw-It index that we serve licence-cleared code from, ranked by relevance and by our code-quality score (1–10, the mean over each repo's graded components: completeness, code quality, deployability, reusability, strategic value). JustClaw-It also serves 1,447 licence-cleared components from nushell/nushell itself.

The alternatives in detail

• sigoden/aichat
  All-in-one LLM CLI tool featuring Shell Assistant, Chat-REPL, RAG, AI Tools & Agents, with access to OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Ollama, Groq, and more.
  score 7.7/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 10,517 stars · 49 components · search them
• asdf-vm/asdf
  Extendable version manager with support for Ruby, Node.js, Elixir, Erlang & more
  score 7.7/10 · MIT permissive · 25,610 stars · 24 components · search them
• fastapi/typer
  Typer, build great CLIs. Easy to code. Based on Python type hints.
  score 7.1/10 · MIT permissive · 20,206 stars · 146 components · search them · alternatives
• withfig/autocomplete
  IDE-style autocomplete for your existing terminal & shell
  score 6.4/10 · MIT permissive · 25,212 stars · 1,357 components · search them · alternatives
• ajeetdsouza/zoxide
  A smarter cd command. Supports all major shells.
  score 2.5/10 · MIT permissive · 40,231 stars · 24 components · search them
• zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting
  Fish shell like syntax highlighting for Zsh.
  score 1.0/10 · BSD-3-Clause permissive · 23,045 stars · 9 components · search them · alternatives

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