Sure it can. Treat it as a functional and immutable language, and you can go pretty far with it, pretty safely. You're forgetting that bash really just calls o

Sure it can. Treat it as a functional and immutable language, and you can go pretty far with it, pretty safely. You're forgetting that bash really just calls other code. So you can combine two language's stdin/out functionality (eg, Python or Node) to pair code together. Sure, it won't be fast, but it can do quick wonders as an ad hoc data pipeline.