Bearings

Judgement

What it is

Developer tool

What it does

A Go shell prompt for zsh, bash and fish, configured in YAML, with themes and modules you can write in any language.

Adopt it when

You want to try a simple YAML-configured prompt and do not need ongoing updates.

Watch out

It has had no push since July 2022 and stayed at version 0.0.5, so it is abandoned; Starship is the maintained alternative.

Ready for

Experimental

Runs as

Command line

Built with

Go

How established

Established: started 4 years ago, latest release v0.0.5.

What the license allows

You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.

Judged on 2026-11-06 from the project's README and GitHub data. The license and age lines are worked out directly.

Built from

Follow it down: Bearings → Go → runs on a microchip

How compilers were built, back to punched paper tape

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