I don't like bash, and this kind of esoteric, hard-to-remember syntax is a big reason why. Software developers and computer users should want their shell to be

I don't like bash, and this kind of esoteric, hard-to-remember syntax is a big reason why. Software developers and computer users should want their shell to be easy to use and reason about, just as they reasonably want this from their general-purpose software development languages. bash is a UNIX legacy tool from the 80s that lingers on in software written today because it's part of the POSIX standard (well, sh, which is close enough), and because generations of developers on UNIX-like systems can be assumed to be familiar with it. I don't think this is a good thing, and I would like to see active efforts to replace the use of bash with better, more-modern scripting languages that provide an easier-to-understand more-reliable experience for users.