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It's a joke. The implication is that Bash was already outdated in the 90s, so it's long past time for something new.

I know, just trying to be too pithy :) But will seriously look at some of the other shells mentioned. I miss scsh.

I made a comprehensive list of shells here:

https://github.com/oilshell/oil/wiki/ExternalResources

Of course I think my own project, Oil, could be a "21st century shell", or I wouldn't be working on it :) It's designed in a principled way, and it's also the only one that's compatible with bash.

Upterm [1] claims to be "A terminal emulator for the 21st century."

[1] https://github.com/railsware/upterm

Fish with a plugin for ironic comprehension.

Gah, probably node...

TermKit possibly fits this: https://acko.net/blog/on-termkit/

I'm not so sold on some of the tokenizing / etc styling, but `cat image.jpg` -> see an image? yes please.

Alternatively, I keep checking in on Xiki periodically, since it has some extremely interesting features: http://xiki.org/

Unfortunately TermKit is effectively dead, with the last commit being almost 6 years ago - https://github.com/unconed/TermKit

iTerm has an imgcat command, which is occasionally handy (works independent of your shell)