[tester756]

>So why are shell languages still around?

Are they? I don't use them more than once a year

[mcluck]

I'd say you're in the extreme minority then. I'm not a bash hacker but I usually end up writing a little script for myself at least once a month. Even just doing `command && command` is technically using a shell language

[BiteCode_dev]

So you are using bash once in a while (once a month is not a lot for a programmer) for niche use case (the specialty of bash: short scripts).

Hence, you are making the point "little languages are not the future". It has found its local optimum.

[mcluck]

I said I write custom scripts about once a month. I use bash literally every day. But I also wasn't arguing the future of programming languages. The parent here said that shell languages aren't being used

[t-3]

Still alive and quite well. In fact, as more and more programs are written, they become more and more useful. We're already well into an era where programming can be nearly entirely ignored in favor of merely scripting new behavior out of the interactions between existing programs.