I could internalise enough bash warts to write and maintain them, but I can’t expect to burden my team mates with crap that’s far more painful than it should be

I could internalise enough bash warts to write and maintain them, but I can’t expect to burden my team mates with crap that’s far more painful than it should be to maintain. Yup, this reminds me of how the Oil project started. I was getting a lot of work done in shell -- invoking tools I wrote in other languages. And sometimes my coworkers were interested in that, although sometimes they avoided it. But either way, I couldn't really recommend shell to them "with a straight face". It's just too weird and unfamiliar. These are largely Python, C++, and occasionally R users. I saw people write "shell scripts" in C++ simply because that's the language they knew. So basically Oil is evolving shell into a language that will be more familiar to Python and JavaScript users (and yes even C++ or Rust users), which is the tagline on the home page.