I agree with your sentiment. People like to complain about tools. The nice things about bash (and even sh) are that you can combine a bunch of simple tools toge

I agree with your sentiment. People like to complain about tools. The nice things about bash (and even sh) are that you can combine a bunch of simple tools together quickly because the syntax doesn't get in the way of it. The language designers didn't intend for people to be writing thousands of lines of scripts; they intended them to be using them locally and focused on interactivity. So naturally the syntax is nice for interactive work. It's a stretch to pretend that working with python paths is easier than working with shell paths, just like it's a stretch to say your bash machine learning library is better than a python one. The author should let things excel at what they're good at and stop pretending everything needs to be unified.