Happy Nu Year 2020: A Review of Nushell's 2019

--- title: Happy Nu Year 2020 author: Sophia Turner author_site: https://twitter.com/sophiajturner author_image: https://www.nushell.sh/blog/images/sophiajt.jpg excerpt: 2019 was quite the year for Nushell. We landed the initial commit on May 10th, and 1881 commits later we find ourselves at the end of 2019. What all happened this year? --- # Happy Nu Year 2020

2019 was quite the year for Nushell. We landed the initial commit on May 10th, and 1881 commits later we find ourselves at the end of 2019. What all happened this year? We started off with quite the bang! After quietly working on Nu for a few months, we wrote up a [blog post](https://www.nushell.sh/blog/2019-08-23-introducing-nushell.html) to explain what Nu was. To our surprise, the post got a surprisingly warm reception! Soon, we were recording a podcast with the Changelog to [talk about Nu](https://changelog.com/podcast/363). As the excitement calmed back to everyday levels, we got to the work of turning this minimum-viable product into the real thing. More than 65 people joined us to help fix bugs, test code, write docs, and explore new directions. ## Where are we? At the end of 2019, where are we? - We now have a [website](https://nushell.sh), a [blog](https://www.nushell.sh/blog), [three](https://www.nushell.sh/book/) [different](https://www.nushell.sh/contributor-book/) [books](https://www.nushell.sh/cookbook/), and the results of our [first survey](https://www.nushell.sh/blog/2019-11-23-nushell-survey-results.html) - We released 6 different releases: [0.2](https://www.nushell.sh/blog/2019-08-23-introducing-nushell.html), [0.3](https://www.nushell.sh/blog/2019-09-24-nushell_0_3_0.html), [0.4](https://www.nushell.sh/blog/2019-10-15-nushell-0_4_0.html), [0.5](https://www.nushell.sh/blog/2019-11-05-nushell-0_5_0.html), [0.6](https://www.nushell.sh/blog/2019-11-26-nushell-0_6_0.html), and [0.7](https://www.nushell.sh/blog/2019-12-18-nushell-0_7_0.html). - Nu gained features. Lots of them. New table designs, new file formats, lots of new commands, improvements to error reporting, plugins (in [C++](https://github.com/lefticus/nu_plugin_calc), [Go](https://vsoch.github.io/2019/nushell-plugin-golang/), [Python](https://github.com/vsoch/nushell-plugin-python), and [Ruby](https://github.com/andrasio/nu-plugin/tree/master/examples)), new colors, support for streaming tables, vi mode, moved to the stable Rust compiler, login shell support, recycle bin support, starship.rs support, fuzzy matching, duration and date comparison, ranges, improved autocomplete, and a bunch of internal improvements to make way for 2020.

The article reviews the progress of Nushell in 2019, starting from its initial commit in May to the end of the year. It highlights the warm reception of the initial blog post, the community's contributions, the launch of a website and blog, the release of six different versions, and the addition of many new features and improvements to the shell.