[PaulRobinson]

Known system dependency that's (almost) always on the system you're on.

I remember somebody once telling me that they had learned vi because "it was always installed". Well, no, technically, the only editor you can be sure is there is ed. So, you know, learn that. I was surprised that they actually did.

Bash is syntactically not perfect, I agree. However it's a well known, mature, stable environment. LLMs can write it well if you need them to. If it was perfect, we'd never have had Perl, and as a result we'd never have had Ruby, Python and other scripting languages.

But I like it's a tool that doesn't require me to go reach for a package manager and some build tools I don't always have on every system.