> I definitely think there's room for an improved bash.
Absolutely! I wholeheartedly agree, and would love for such a project to exist, and see sufficient adoption such that it's a standard at my job.
I may not have articulated my prior point precisely enough.
Too often I'll see a professional JS programmer (for example) who will forego everything they've learned the second they touch a shell script. No useful comments, no functions, poor design & implementation, no care towards idioms, no regard for readability/maintainability.
Given that bash is currently the standard, someone is better served by actually learning it than a worse, novel alternative.
Any successor must encompass the power and feature-set that exists within contemporary shell scripting.
Absolutely! I wholeheartedly agree, and would love for such a project to exist, and see sufficient adoption such that it's a standard at my job.
I may not have articulated my prior point precisely enough.
Too often I'll see a professional JS programmer (for example) who will forego everything they've learned the second they touch a shell script. No useful comments, no functions, poor design & implementation, no care towards idioms, no regard for readability/maintainability.
Given that bash is currently the standard, someone is better served by actually learning it than a worse, novel alternative.
Any successor must encompass the power and feature-set that exists within contemporary shell scripting.