[Y_Y]

I find that `bash -x` actially gives such a good trace that I rarely need anything else. Coupled with the ancient wisdom "bash for quick and dirty, once it gets too fancy switch to python", I use bash a lot and find it manages really well without external tools. Shoutouts to shellcheck though, for catching a lot of edge cases.

[ygritte]

Yep, shellcheck + syntastic in vim makes for a great bash "IDE".

[HankB99]

https://github.com/vim-syntastic/syntastic looks like it is no longer maintained. Is there something more recent for syntastic?

Agreed WRT shellcheck.

[dcassett]

It mentions ALE [1] as the logical successor to syntastic. I've been using ALE for many years.

[1] https://github.com/dense-analysis/ale