A lot of people use bash scripts to setup their dev environments on new machines. I can think of several reasons why I would want an easy to install zero depend

A lot of people use bash scripts to setup their dev environments on new machines. I can think of several reasons why I would want an easy to install zero dependency irc client on a new machine. Bash is hands down one of the most useful languages out there, it is nearly as ubiquitous as javascript. For an example on how powerful bash can be I would take a look at Ben Alman's (Cowboy) dotfiles repo. https://github.com/cowboy/dotfiles https://github.com/cowboy/dotfiles