Another proper consideration is continuity of development. If a death causes a shell to become abandonware as a result of a developer failing to arrange for another to take the project on updates if they happen at all will take some time.
On Wed, 17 Jun 2020, Piscium via arch-general wrote: > Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2020 15:27:29 > From: Piscium via arch-general <arch-general@archlinux.org> > To: General Discussion about Arch Linux <arch-general@archlinux.org> > Cc: Piscium <grok...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [arch-general] dash as default shell? > > On Wed, 17 Jun 2020 at 20:19, Kusoneko <kuson...@kusoneko.moe> wrote: > > > Pretty much this, to be honest. I don't really see the point of changing > > everyone's /bin/sh for one person's personal preference when there isn't > > really any point in doing so to begin with. > > The reasons Ubuntu switched in 2006 and Debian in 2011 were speed, > less bugs and more security. A simple benchmark I ran with several > shells using konsole (which is one of the fastest terminals according > to my simple benchmarks): > > time ls -R / > > ? dash 8.45 > ? zsh 8.53 (1 % bigger) > ? bash 17.1 > ? fish 19.55 > > Times are in seconds, on my desktop that has a spinning drive. The > first time it takes longer as the system caches stuff so the times > above are after running a few times. I read that in some benchmarks > dash is up to 4 times faster than bash. > --
