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by tgv 817 days ago
> The learning curve is minimal since you already know the corners of the language

But that does not imply you know how to get the creation date of a file or how to zip a directory.

> Internal language APIs can be leveraged, which drastically changes the mental model to write the script (for the better)

That sounds like a rather empty statement.

> Scripts feel more natural and eventually maintainability increases. Team members are familiarized with the language!

Don't you think familiarity with the OS (or OSes) comes first? And that knowledge usually comes with the knowledge of a shell or batch language.

> Development machines compatibility increases. Windows users can finally run all scripts.

Script development time increases, too. And Windows has WSL nowadays.