[l0b0]

How did we get here?

- The barrier to entry for shell scripting is tiny. You basically start with `ls` in an interactive shell and end up writing a frickin' 500-line monstrosity within a month.

- POSIX has fossilised scripting languages. I hoped we'd have something like PowerShell by now, but although we have some fine alternatives, none of them seem to be good enough to actually overcome the inertia of POSIX.

- Doing something that looks correct is easy, but doing the right thing is super effing hard. See looping through complex sets of files.

- People use statements like "It's just a script", as if scripts are somehow easy to write. Bullshit.

[SergeAx]

Script may be not easy to write, but it's universally easy to deploy. Single almost cross-platform file, no dependencies. Publish the text on a webpage or in an email newsletter so everyone can copy-paste it to their system. Brilliant.