I've never tested Ammonite, only read the https://ammonite.io/#Ammonite-Shell https://ammonite.io/#Ammonite-Shell, so I'm only guessing here. From what I under

I've never tested Ammonite, only read the https://ammonite.io/#Ammonite-Shell https://ammonite.io/#Ammonite-Shell, so I'm only guessing here. From what I understand, Ammonite was designed as a "readline shell" as I wrote in the article. It perpetuates this approach that everything is a command. The thesis of my article suggests we do the opposite: I'm suggesting to rethink shells by starting from the interface (here the SLY REPL) and then implement the shell features. In particular, it seems that Ammonite does not support back-references and I'm not sure it has an interactive inspector. While Ammonite seems to be a definite improvement over the _syntax_ of Bash, etc., I'm not sure it brings much novelty in terms of user interface. But again, I know very little about it so I may have missed some features :)