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Yeah, but water is also wet.

Shell scripting is beyond salvation. Inconsistent, illogical crap. It's ridiculous that Bash doesn't have first-class JSON support in 2023, but even if it did, that still wouldn't make me want to write Shell.

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I could see a shell that doesn't suck for scripting that has first-class JSON support. Something like PowerShell, but not PowerShell, and close enough to bash that one could quickly get used to it.

Let's call it Javascript!

or node. being able to run external programs is the key here.

Sounds like Elk. https://elk.strct.net

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