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Thing is, they don't die. Instead you get the short end of the stick.

You'd have to be pretty darn important for an org to fix their scripts because of your name or the username you created. Of it would need to happen at a larger scale, but then that wouldn't be so controversial in the first place.

That's going to be a very bumpy road, even if everyone were to agree that the destination is appealing.

Yeah for better or for worse compatibility is king. I despise shell scripts, they are an absolute nightmare to work with and full of footguns. But they are so commonplace that people are not going to tolerate YOLO breaking changes.

Yeah I think ESH

While we have more modern shells the fact that bash (or even sh) is the "common denominator" 30 yrs on is both good and awful

We need a PowerShell for Linux

Not even that is free of footguns, especially around argument parsing and calling native commands.

Perhaps unix isn't for you?