[Xavdidtheshadow]

> obscure and difficult-to-predict

I mean, I think there's something to that. Bash has a lot of arcane rules; I personally never write an `if` statement right, what with the `[[` vs `[` and having to surround the condition with whitespace. I find that bash scripts carry a million little gotchas that will cause variables to not evaluate/expand the way you'd expect.

Say what you will about Python, but it's much easier to reason about what a script will do as compared to bash (unless the bash is _extremely_ simplistic).