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by creshal 3697 days ago
> Regexes for globbing files might be a new one

Regexes in particular are new AFAIK, but zsh's extended globbing is already extremely powerful: http://www.refining-linux.org/archives/37/ZSH-Gem-2-Extended...

Bash also comes close, iirc.

But we use shells because of their ubiquity, not because of how nice scripting languages they are (they aren't). So I don't see myself ever using xonsh – I'm already glad when a system has bash and I don't have to figure out what "posix /bin/sh compliant" is supposed to mean this week.