I'm a DevOps engineer and I agree with the mission of Xonsh. The shell is broken. Make sucks, it is a c build tool we have Frankenstein'd into a task runner.

I'm a DevOps engineer and I agree with the mission of Xonsh. The shell is broken. Make sucks, it is a c build tool we have Frankenstein'd into a task runner. Bash is missing a huge amount of features of modern programming languages, and has a bunch of foot-guns baked in by default ( not setting -e, etc. ) I would love to see a modern language that: - has a similar mental model a d syntax to other programming languages - built in argument parsing, declaration, and help string generation - designed for "scripting" - calling out to other binaries and gluing tools together