Having been recently exposed to PowerShell, I’m quite impressed by the balance they’ve struck in developing a new shell. I wouldn’t want to switch out Bash for

Having been recently exposed to PowerShell, I’m quite impressed by the balance they’ve struck in developing a new shell. I wouldn’t want to switch out Bash for PowerShell, but that’s mostly based on the same reasoning as you have (I can’t be bothered to install new shells everywhere). Though in a sense I think the most viable solution would be almost the opposite for UNIX: a reduced (and strict) shell syntax intended to be the target of crosscompilation rather than manual use. If it’d be possible to make that a subset of the standardized sh, there’d be automatic compatibility from the start and adoption wouldn’t need to happen on the consumer side. Still, we have binaries already. Binaries are much more capable than what I’m suggesting, though they are platform dependent. A variant of WASM, maybe?