Hmmm … feels like a lot of missing the bigger point here. Xonsh, IMO, isn’t about hating bash or loving Python. It’s about making a new language (and shell) t

Hmmm … feels like a lot of missing the bigger point here. Xonsh, IMO, isn’t about hating bash or loving Python. It’s about making a new language (and shell) that tries to bring what’s good about a nice shell to Python so that when we hit our “this bash script is too big/complex and I need a better language” threshold, we can pick up Python (a reasonable choice) but retain some of the ergonomics of bash for calling and piping data to/from external programs, which Python simply doesn’t have (where subprocess + shlex + stdlib utils just don’t cut it IMO). From my minimal experience/playing around, xonsh seems quite nice and I find it a very believable future where it is a mainstream system scripting tool. Another thing to keep in mind is that AFAICT it is coming out of the researchy-sciency crowd where Python is mainstream and bash a necessary evil. Finding a way to make subprocess calls easy seems an obvious win in that context. Going even further, how nice would it be if something similar were part of the Python standard library? Being a wonderfully ergonomic shell script alternative seems like an instance where python could finally be the actual best at something.