> I have this web page saved up in case I ever need to convince anyone of this... http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashPitfalls

This is a great list of pitfalls, absolutely, but they are more an argument for integrating shellcheck into your IDE than avoiding bash, IMHO!

I know, I know, possible religious war, but I find that bash+shellcheck is far more often the right toolset than switching languages to avoid the pitfalls.

The immense power and expressiveness and immediacy of bash makes so many programs and so much prototype->PoC->MVP progression so easy and effortless that it is worthwhile having tooling to catch the worst of the warts.