> Oil is taking shell seriously as a programming language, rather than treating it as a text-based UI that can be abused to write programs. erm, there's a big

> Oil is taking shell seriously as a programming language, rather than treating it as a text-based UI that can be abused to write programs. erm, there's a big difference between a command scripting language and a programming language. These should be treated as different things. I have years of experience using both, and I really don't want to be doing shell tasks in a programming language and I don't want to write programs in a shell language. Those sorts of hybrids are almost always mediocre. Horses for courses and all that. There's a reason bash keeps being used - it's mature, it's simple, it's easy and people are productive with it.