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Re:Crush: A command line shell that is also a powerful moder... by IshKebab on Friday August 07, 2020 @04:15PM (#24085995)
You are forgetting about how shell scripts start. "I don't want to keep writing these 5 shell commands, I'll put them in a file. Ok that is useful, I'll add some parameters. This shell script works great, I'll add more functionality."

And before you know it you have a buggy monster written in a batshit insane language that nobody is going to want to touch.

If your shell is at least vaguely sane, the situation is a lot better. I don't really get why you would argue against something that fixes the many many many mistakes of Bash.

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Re:Crush: A command line shell that is also a powerful moder... by lolc on Friday August 07, 2020 @06:13PM (#24086964)
To a first approximation, people who are ok with Bash as a scripting language do not know enough Bash to safely use it as a scripting language.

I see many insane constructs that accidentally work. I also know how much time it would take to explain expansion rules. And people don't even want to hear it because it shakes their simplistic (and inconsistent) understanding.

So yes, I hope we'll see something like crush replacing Bash. But I don't see how it will happen.

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