For me the really compelling reason to use zsh is that it's "like bash, but without the gotchas." For example, $* just works, even if the args have spaces. You

For me the really compelling reason to use zsh is that it's "like bash, but without the gotchas." For example, $* just works, even if the args have spaces. You don't have to think about "$@" which still doesn't work sometimes.