[BiteCode_dev]

Shell languages are a very good example, because they have been replaced mostly by bigger languages. First by perl, then by python.

Now a day, most people don't write bash if it must be more than a few lines: it fits niche perfectly, like horse ridding.

But you are not going to do website with bash anymore, server swarm deployment with powershell or build your encoding pipeline in fish. Tasks that we used to do using those small languages, until we found out that we prefer a car to do shopping.

[majkinetor]

> server swarm deployment with powershell

I do this routinely with powershell. Powershell is not bash or fish, its highly usuable in all situations except those that require greatest performance and even then there are solutions for various types of problems.

[williamcotton]

Do you prefer a car or a touring bus when you go shopping? Because making an analogy between a car and horse doesn't really make any sense.

Why not have a niche language for making websites? Or for server swarm deployment? Or a video encoding pipeline?