Nu Shell Weekly Update #1

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# This week in Nu #1

Our first week since the public 0.2.0 announcement. What a week! We got a bunch of positive feedback on the release. And lots of new folks dropping by to [file issues](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues), [pull requests](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pulls), and to chat in our [discord](https://discord.gg/NtAbbGn).

Nu and improved this week:

- Lots of bugfixes (too many to list!)
- Tables are now drawn with utf-8 box characters
- Support for ~ expansion
- Docker support
- new `from-bson` and `to-bson` commands to convert from and to the bson file format
- new `from-tsv` and `to-tsv` commands to convert from and to the tsv file format
- new `reverse` command to reverse the rows of the table
- new `last` command that works similarly to `first` but from the bottom
- Improved `ps` command
- [Taking steps](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues/362) towards moving onto Rust stable
- vi mode
- 21 new contributors (for a total of 25)

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Title: Nu Shell Weekly Update #1

Summary

This is the first weekly update since the public announcement of Nu 0.2.0. The team received positive feedback and many new contributors. Updates include bug fixes, improved tables with utf-8 characters, support for ~ expansion, Docker support, new `from-bson`, `to-bson`, `from-tsv`, `to-tsv`, `reverse`, and `last` commands, an improved `ps` command, progress towards Rust stable, vi mode, and 21 new contributors.