> Shell scripting used to be amazing, but as a language these days it's behind the times. It was never amazing, was given far too much credit, used too widely,

> Shell scripting used to be amazing, but as a language these days it's behind the times. It was never amazing, was given far too much credit, used too widely, and brought up a generation of people thinking that this is the way to manage a complex web of dependencies. On the other hand, constraints like the above tend to foster creativity, so perhaps that's why people have been so nostalgic for this way of solving the system startup problem.