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Re:Crush: A command line shell that is also a powerful moder... by oblio on Friday August 07, 2020 @06:54AM (#24080519)
It only took Zsh 29 years (initial release year: 1990, adoption in Mac OS: 2019) to become the default shell on one of the major nixes, while being POSIX compatible and having just an extension layer on top.

I wouldn't hold my breath for something else to replace sh/bash as the default shell on the major nixes within this century. Pessimist? More like realist :-)

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Re:Crush: A command line shell that is also a powerful moder... by robin_reala on Friday August 07, 2020 @07:33AM (#24080768)
That wasn’t even driven by zsh’s actual benefits, but by the fact that bash changed to GPL3. If it had continued on GPL2 we’d 100% still have bash as a default.
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Re:Crush: A command line shell that is also a powerful moder... by Fnoord on Friday August 07, 2020 @09:16AM (#24081429)
And the fact Apple doesn't like GPLv3.
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Re:Crush: A command line shell that is also a powerful moder... by pjmlp on Sunday August 09, 2020 @11:28AM (#24100198)
Most other major UNIXes, before of BSD/Linux takeover weren't on sh, rather tsch and ksh.
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