I see this argument a great deal here on hacker news. I think it's more important that the scripter understands their use case and develop accordingly. Posix po

I see this argument a great deal here on hacker news. I think it's more important that the scripter understands their use case and develop accordingly. Posix portability is almost never a factor or the things that I develop, because we have a near monoculture in terms of operating system and version. For me, the additional features that bash provides are much more important than a portability that I'll never need to use.