Nushell
To provide a modern, structured shell that treats all data as first-class citizens, drawing inspiration from functional programming and modern CLI tools.
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- Software Developers
- Data Engineers
- System Administrators
- DevOps Engineers
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Nushell
Structured Data Shell in Rust
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A modern shell written in Rust that treats data as structured tables, records, and lists instead of just text strings.
Market Position
A structured alternative to Bash and Zsh, often compared to PowerShell but with a Unix-like experience and written in Rust.
Leadership
Founders
Sophia J. Turner (formerly Jonathan Turner)
Previously a member of the TypeScript team at Microsoft and worked on the Rust team at Mozilla. Creator of Nushell.
Yehuda Katz
Co-founder of Tilde Inc., member of the Rust, Ruby on Rails, and Ember.js core teams.
Andrés Robalino
Software engineer and open-source contributor, previously collaborated with Warp (Rust-based terminal).
Executive Team
Sophia J. Turner
Lead Developer & Co-founder
Project lead and original creator.
Yehuda Katz
Core Team Member & Co-founder
Expert in programming language design and Rust.
Founding Story
Nushell was started by Jonathan Turner (Sophia Turner) and Yehuda Katz to solve the problem of shell piping being limited to strings. They envisioned a shell that could handle structured data like tables and objects natively.
Business Model
Revenue Model
Free Open Source (MIT License)
Pricing Tiers
Full access to source code and binaries
Target Markets
- Software Developers
- Data Engineers
- System Administrators
- DevOps Engineers
- Data manipulation and exploration
- Modern shell scripting
- System administration and SRE tasks
- Developer productivity workflows
- GitHub
- Microsoft
- Mozilla