Yes, but it's a shell nevertheless :), and it actually now supports some of the most common bashisms, so simple copy-pasted commands designed for bash now work.

Yes, but it's a shell nevertheless :), and it actually now supports some of the most common bashisms, so simple copy-pasted commands designed for bash now work. For any actual scripting IMO bash (or /bin/sh) is still the better choice, since it's installed everywhere, even though it might not have such great syntax.