I wrote a fair number of bash scripts, and the area where they're definitely weaker than using a mainstream programming language is debugging. If something bad

I wrote a fair number of bash scripts, and the area where they're definitely weaker than using a mainstream programming language is debugging. If something bad goes on a large script, it is not only harder to figure out why, but sometimes the error may be in one of a dozen native UNIX commands that have nothing to do with bash. The interaction between the shell and these UNIX commands is the weak point in the process and you can spend a long time trying to figure out what is really going on.