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by sliverstorm 4238 days ago
Using the world's most common shell in a standard configuration comes with benefits, too. Incredible portability of your code & experience.

Plus shells that try to be too smart or do too much always break, leaving you debugging your shell. Shoot me now.

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"X's that try to be too smart or do too much always break, leaving you debugging your X" is, based on my observations, a true statement for values of X equal to ANY core system component: package manager, init system, build system, etc.