Sign me up for someone who hates the shell. I've always tried to write scripts in Python or even C++ is so much easier than bash, awk, etc. Bash has no repl, no unit tests not debugger its anachronistic. Don't get me started on emacs.
Bash scripts are generally very short. If you need unit tests and a debugger you probably should be using something other than Bash. But saying you hate the shell because it's bad at something it was never designed for is silly.