Similar story for me, but I consider the POSIX shell language a worthwhile least-common-denominator language. I avoid using bash or zsh extensions except intera

Similar story for me, but I consider the POSIX shell language a worthwhile least-common-denominator language. I avoid using bash or zsh extensions except interactively (and in a zsh plugin I maintain [0]). As I think you need to know the standard shell language anyway, new shell DSLs are a bit of a turn-off to me. If the language is trivial it's not very powerful and if it's powerful it takes time to learn. That's why I have high hopes for shells that combine tried-and-true programming languages and their ecosystems to a thin shell layer. Like http://xonsh.org http://xonsh.org or https://docs.racket-lang.org/rash/index.html https://docs.racket-lang.org/rash/index.html . But if I'm completely honest, I think bash will still be the standard choice in 5 years and weird shells you haven't heard of will still be weird shells you haven't heard of. [0]: https://gitlab.com/code-stats/code-stats-zsh https://gitlab.com/code-stats/code-stats-zsh