I'd definitely say so. Combined with Docker, its job is to "tame" / coordinate / connect extremely heterogeneous software, much of which wasn't designed to run

I'd definitely say so. Combined with Docker, its job is to "tame" / coordinate / connect extremely heterogeneous software, much of which wasn't designed to run on clusters. I think of shell as the language for glue (and we need a better one). and I explored this relationship in a followup to a popular post [1]: http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2021/07/cloud-review.html http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2021/07/cloud-review.html [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27903720 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27903720