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Generally my workflow when developing scripts (in Python) is to run individual functions in the repl so I can get it right.

This isn't possible with bash unless I start the python repl, so at that point, what is the point?

Hey, it's possible you spend a lot of time writing scripts, and they need to be bash compatible. Zsh is great for that.

Just wanted to reflect how made-up this sounds to those of us who treat sh like any other language.

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> Generally my workflow when developing scripts (in Python) is to run individual functions in the repl so I can get it right.

As a matter of fact, this is exactly what I do when I write Python scripts too. It helps understand exactly what things do quickly and figure certain smaller things.

> Just wanted to reflect how made-up this sounds to those of us who treat sh like any other language.

What do you think sounds made-up?

I mean that "can't use fish because I have to use bash to write bash" makes about as much sense to me, given how I use the terminal, as "can't use fish because I have to use python to write python".

I'm assuming that means you write more shell scripts than I do, or think of the context switch between shells as qualitatively different from the context switch between shell and (some other) repl. All of which is fine.

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