I don't think you need to remember all of Nushell's commands (I certainly don't). You can go far with a handful of important ones; off the top of my head, get/select/where/sort-by/open are the most important.

This is something we should communicate better in the docs, I'll see what I can do.

I have written a bunch of nu and: no dot method syntax means you need to browse documentation for literally everything. So much worse than your average programming language, which takes the data type + you enter a dot = it suggests all the relevant methods. The Nu docs are better than they were a few years ago but as far as I can tell they keep changing command names, having subtle changes of behaviour for commands with the same name but apparently different implementations for different data types, having a crucial command listed under a weird name that takes an hour to find, etc etc. If I need to wrangle some JSON again I think I’ll just use Python.

> subtle changes of behaviour for commands with the same name but apparently different implementations for different data types

This was one of the biggest problems with Nu's dataframe functionality; it should be resolved now that we no longer ship with dataframes by default.

Totally agreed on dot method being nice for discoverability, that's something we need to do better on.

That sounds really promising though, you convinced me. Will have a try.