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Because of the massive amount of legacy bash scripts that are running on almost every server out there, to migrate away from Bash is very expensive. Both in ter
by r0naa 12y ago
Because of the massive amount of legacy bash scripts that are running on almost every server out there, to migrate away from Bash is very expensive. Both in terms of human resources, time and of course risk of failure.
Unless something new come up that provide something significant enough for people to eat that cost and move to do this new version, I don't see Bash going away anytime soon.
It also hasn't changed a lot since it's creation in 1989, for good or worse.
- ketralnis 12y agoWho said you had to migrate away from existing bash code? You can just start writing new scripts in whatever language you want. Especially if it's a shell language and you're communicating via argv/stdin anyway. The continued existence of bash doesn't mean that you can't use anything else. Did C go away when Ruby/Python/Perl et al came into being? Or did people keep on writing both?