Ten years or so ago the cool kids were using zsh: which is in general a pretty reasonable move, it’s got way more command-line amenities than bash (at least built in).
Today fish is the fucking business: fish is so much more fun as a CLI freak.
But I guess I’ve got enough PTSD around when k8s or it’s proprietary equivalents get stuck that I always wanted to be not only functional but fast in outage-type scenarios that I kept bash as a daily driver.
Writing shell scripts of any kind is godawful, the equivalent python is the code you want to own, but it’s universality is a real selling point, like why I keep half an eye on Perl5 even though I loathe it: it may suck but it’s always there when the klaxon is going off.
The best possible software is useless if it’s not installed.
