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While that's true for portability (there's obviously reasons why nearly all distros ship with a POSIX sh compatible shell at /bin/sh), for simple tasks on my ow

While that's true for portability (there's obviously reasons why nearly all distros ship with a POSIX sh compatible shell at /bin/sh), for simple tasks on my own system, oftentimes I simply want to get the job done without banging my head against a wall dealing with all the idiosyncrasies of sh. For internal use, I think this project excels for automation and administration tasks. Of course, I probably wouldn't ship anything written in xonsh-python, but I'd totally use it to, say, back up my dotfiles to a git repo automatically.

Sir_Cmpwn 8y ago
Because many distros ship with /bin/sh linked as bash, I think using arbitrary shells for your personal scripts encourages bad habits that can easily lead to mistakenly writing non-portable scripts elsewhere without realizing it. This has happened to me many times! POSIX shell is not really worse than bash or any of the other choices imo. For tasks to which it's not suited, bash et al probably isn't either, and you should just use Python.