> The truth is, in 2023 if someone asked us to design a system, we wouldn't design POSIX. If, in 2023, someone asked us to design a shell language, we wouldn't

> The truth is, in 2023 if someone asked us to design a system, we wouldn't design POSIX. If, in 2023, someone asked us to design a shell language, we wouldn't design bash/zsh. This matters. Indeed, clinging to the awful design choices of the past prolongs misery for all the future generations > [bash] Pros: it's everywhere. Learn once, run anywhere not on native Windows unlike, say, python-based shells like xonsh or even pwsh