Powershell attempts to use a more scripting friendly language in the shell. And it’s a horrible shell experience. It’s great for scripting (but not as good as

Powershell attempts to use a more scripting friendly language in the shell. And it’s a horrible shell experience. It’s great for scripting (but not as good as other scripting languages) but it’s a terrible experience on a day to day basis, with the only salvation being the existence of 2-3 letter aliases which make things slightly more manageable. Bash is a great shell language that whose scripts are useful because it allows you to trivially convert your manual shell actions into an executable script. If you need to do anything complex (or rather, something you probably wouldn’t type into the shell manually if you had to do the thing on a one off basis), then you’re probably better off using a different scripting language. But changing BASH with scripting as a priority would probably make it a worse shell language (which is not to say there are no improvements to be made…there are).