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by sidkshatriya 762 days ago
Bash reigns supreme indeed. If you’re writing software for yourself or a small team the benefits of Elvish are higher productivity. Try it out — I was really satisfied at the power and cleanliness of the scripting language.

Bash will be dethroned some day. As general purpose languages like Rust, Julia, Python etc have risen, Fortran, pascal etc have declined. And so that will eventually happen with bash. Not “if” but “when” !

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When I see a language with `var` to declare variables, I think I would just use julia as https://github.com/ninjaaron/administrative-scripting-with-j...