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title: Two years of Nushell
author: The Nu Authors
author_site: https://twitter.com/nu_shell
author_image: https://www.nushell.sh/blog/images/nu_logo.png
excerpt: Happy birthday, Nushell! Today mark's the second year for Nushell.
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# Two years of Nushell

_Happy birthday, Nushell!_

Happy birthday, Nushell! Today marks the second year for Nushell since its first public release. We wanted to write a bit about what the last year has meant and share some of the highlights and lowlights along the way.

## Focus

Through out Nushell's first year, we had faith in the basics behind Nushell but couldn't guess how it would grow and what it might be able to do. As we progressed through this second year, the project gained a focus: **to be the best tool for interactively working with your system and your data**.

It's a high bar to set, but we're happy to try to achieve that goal. To achieve it, we're focusing on three different parts of Nushell, each of which deeply connects to the other two.

### Nushell, the language

Nushell (sometimes shortened to just Nu) is a language that allows you to easily create pipelines for working on structured data. As a language, Nushell has grown considerably over the last year. You're now able to make your own commands to process data, create aliases, variables, and much much more.

We've started collecting examples to share with each other as Nushell grows and our skill with it grows with it. You can check them out in the [Nu Scripts repo](https://github.com/nushell/nu_scripts).