The article admits basically exactly this, but also makes arguments as to why? ``` He proceeded to explain that if he could recreate many of the techniques we

The article admits basically exactly this, but also makes arguments as to why? ``` He proceeded to explain that if he could recreate many of the techniques we showed all as part of a C++ library that people could use. At this time, I wasn't sure how to respond other than "but you don't have to, we already built this language" but he couldn't be swayed. If it wasn't C++, he didn't want it. Fast forward a couple years, and I'm standing in front of a JavaScript audience giving a similar talk, this time promoting TypeScript. I remember the kind of politely confused looks on people's faces as I showed off the features TypeScript offered. There was a similar sense of "why do we need to leave JavaScript?". To answer whether Nushell can overcome this kind of inertia, I'll pose two questions: Is Nushell compelling enough for a single person to adopt it? Would adopting Nushell broadly as a community move the needle? Let's tackle the first question. Time and again, as people try Nushell, they come back with quotes like "this is the most excited I've been about tech in 15 years". It has a fanbase that loves it, and that fanbase is growing. It reminds me of the early days of Rust, just after hitting 1.0. To the second question: would adopting Nushell broadly actually improve things noticeably? Without a doubt. I say this without any reservation. Thinking of our shells as structured, interactive processing engines opens up the doors to a much wider array of things you can do with them. The commands would be far simpler than their POSIX equivalents and would compose far better. They'd benefit from the full knowledge of the data being shared between them. Adaptors could be made to connect to all parts of the system, allowing you full, structured interaction with everything you have access to. ``` I enjoy nushell, but I am far far far from the average user/target audience. I do not sys admin or anything like it, I mostly use it to quickly navigate the filesystem and, with nushell specifically, occasionally to work with data i've gotten from other things. I haven't gotten quite to the point I would write scripts in it yet, but at the point i'm considering throwing up an FSX file or going into a repl, I like that I might just be able to use nushell instead for the smaller tasks. Is this useful? To me, sure, to everyone else, hell if I know. edit- Article even touches on this mindset: > I don't need to do heavy data processing everyday, but it's nice to not have to shift what I'm doing at all when I need to do it. I don't have to download new utilities or switch languages. It's all right there. Need to write a script to load some files and handle some directory processing? Still right there. Need to throw together some web query that outputs the top download results for a github repo? You guessed it, all still right there.