> They are hugely desirable for quickly hacking something together Undeniably, yes. I was there in the 90s ;-) But hacking things together in a way that's rob

> They are hugely desirable for quickly hacking something together Undeniably, yes. I was there in the 90s ;-) But hacking things together in a way that's robust is difficult, and bash isn't a good match for that difficulty. These days I mostly operate in the realm of "how can I enable others to hack things together without blowing tens of millions of our dollars and their very early career on a stupid mistake".