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I enjoy it quite a lot :shrug:

Bash itself isn't a very big language, so I wouldn't call it "impossible to memorize".

I have around a billion short bash scripts, it's rare I've used an array but it's cool it has it as long as the script doesn't go beyond a few lines.

I find the semantics (e.g. the order in which elements are replaced/parsed/processed) more of a problem than the syntax.

Have you tried plan9's rc? easy to memorize syntax thing. It's still easy to make mistakes though and nobody uses it.

It has some rough edges but bash has the world's best REPL and along with -x that makes debugging quite easy.