[ryapric]

Weird that no one has yet to actually discuss `xonsh`, which the video is actually about.

However, I'm about to do the same lol, and come out as a bash apologist against the sea of derision here. I've spent a decade writing code in maybe 10 different languages, and bash is still what I write the most of -- and its by choice! If you're writing a lot of code that calls other code, bash is kind of the default choice, since that's literally what the shell is for.

Once you spend enough time with it, I actually find bash to be surprisingly elegant in what it affords the author in its terseness. Combined with other CLI utilities' own concision, it's an incredibly powerful environment. Sure it can start to appear arcane to unfamiliar folks, but you can work to make it significantly more readable than most people would have you believe. And with e.g. shellcheck, you can do away with a great deal of common footguns.