I'm quite happy to see that something Bash-related is on Hacker News! Unfortunately it seems that I don't really agree with much the author... While I do agree

I'm quite happy to see that something Bash-related is on Hacker News! Unfortunately it seems that I don't really agree with much the author... While I do agree that it would be nice to be able to have 'local' functions and have inter-function cleanup work better, the logical conclusion for me was not to use function subshells. Since the use case is for larger programs (where different functions may want to have their own cleanup mechanisms), I'm opting to go for more of a library route. For example, I'm working on a Bash library that includes a function to allow different sources to add (and remove) functions to the same `TRAP`. A similar function may be useful, possibly involving the `RETURN` trap and the `-T` flag for the use case the author brings up. Obviously, using a package manager for _Bash_ of all languages brings in a lot of overhead, but I think it can be quite powerful, especially with a potential "Bundle" feature that makes scripts work without the package manager. Concerning specifically the use of subshells, (as other commenters have pointed out) it significantly reduces performance. I also disagree that dynamic scoping is necessarily bad for Bash. I find it quite useful when I need to use various common functions to manipulate a variable - since modifying and 'returning' variables from a function is usually either slow or verbose with Bash. Admittedly though, this feature is quite annoying at times - for example, most public functions in my Bash package manager[2] all have their variables prefixed with two underscores - because they `source` all the shell scripts of all package dependencies - so I want to be extra certain nothing weird happens [1] https://github.com/hyperupcall/bash-core/blob/a17ab0a8b6070f8971a13680dfdbf5cdabf6e34d/pkg/lib/public/bash-core.sh#L28 https://github.com/hyperupcall/bash-core/blob/a17ab0a8b6070f... [2] https://github.com/hyperupcall/basalt/blob/main/pkg/lib/public/basalt-global.sh https://github.com/hyperupcall/basalt/blob/main/pkg/lib/publ...