Bash being ubiquitous is mildly underrated in the article. When I log into a random server, I know there will be bash.
But I agree about text as a least common denominator being too restrictive. I might give nushell a try for local stuff.
I really like this project, but it'd need to be at least as ubiquitous as python for me to put serious effort into learning it. This is what bash will always have on these experimental shells unfortunately.
This looks incredibly powerful and cool.. but also like the kind of thing that may be a bit too niche or experimental for me to learn after just 2 years of the occasional casual Bash scripting and 4 weeks of having used zsh as my terminal.
I am trying to resist
I feel you on this. I recently switched to fish, and have one or two .fish scripts that don't really "do" anything. Everything else remotely important is still in bash, and I'll probably keep it that way
Maybe somewhere down the line...
Ok dang I've been reading nutshell for quite a moment...
Nushell is nice, but the lack of vi-style keybindings killed it for me as a replacement for bash. If that ever changes, I'll try it again.
Nushell not being able to handle "literally json with functions" nix kinda killed it for me. I don't work with json and yaml is easy to read but i do work with nix and being able to view big pieces of code nushell style would be nice.