Shell is pretty special though - it is a very frequent secondary language. In fact, even Kotlin itself uses bash: https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin/blob/mast

Shell is pretty special though - it is a very frequent secondary language. In fact, even Kotlin itself uses bash: https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin/blob/master/scripts/build-kotlin-maven.sh https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin/blob/master/scripts/buil... So sure, replace Java with Kotlin, C++ with Rust, Python with go/julia/ruby/whatever.. but bash or sh is here to stay. (And that would be bash or sh, not fish or nushell or something...)