Nushell Survey: Areas for Improvement and Reasons for Non-Adoption

3rd chunk of `blog/2019-11-23-nushell-survey-results.md`

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Nu users also pointed out a few areas where they hoped Nu would improve over time. Top of mind were improvements around auto-completion, improving the keyboard shortcuts, and better integration with existing shells and tools.

There were also a batch of additional improvements people wished for: full scripting support, better examples/documentation, improved stability, interactive table viewing, more commands, smarter table drawing, better coloring, better error messages, aliases, prompt customization, and general performance improvements.

### Quotes

- _"Better documentation for how to write custom wrappers around existing tools."_
- _"The coloring and autocomplete and a scripting language"_
- _"Compatibility with other shells. It's annoying that I often have to add quotes when copying a command from a website."_
- _"Honestly, I wish I knew enough about Nu that I could add a bunch of documentation to show others what it could do."_

# Nu non-users

## What's stopping you from using Nu? (100 responses)

Title: Nushell Survey: Areas for Improvement and Reasons for Non-Adoption

Summary

Nushell users want improvements in auto-completion, keyboard shortcuts, and integration with existing tools and shells. They also desire better scripting support, documentation, stability, interactive table viewing, and performance. Non-users cite lack of time, perceived immaturity of Nushell, being comfortable with Bash or Zsh, and a feeling that it doesn't fit their needs as primary reasons for not adopting it.