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The only thing I can think of is if you have an existing system you are integrating with thats implemented in shell script already - for example a packaging or build pack system; but I can’t really see how this could be justified even there because this could easily be a toy that becomes abandoned.

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A really common use case is install/bootstrap/setup scripts. You know, those sketchy curl-to-bash things, or cloud-init scripts, or whatever you run to set up your actual higher level tools like Python.

Hi, I am one of the project maintainers :-)

As said there are use cases where you want to use only bash because you can't install scripting languages with their dependences as example.

As usual there is a tool for any user cases and Amber resolves some of them :-)

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