Bash being ubiquitous is mildly underrated in the article. When I log into a random server, I know there will be bash.

But I agree about text as a least common denominator being too restrictive. I might give nushell a try for local stuff.

IMO, nushell isn’t really an alternative to bash/zsh, unless it has backwards compatibility with bash/zsh commands and scripts. I would say it’s more of an alternative to PowerShell, given how similarly it behaves to it. It’s for people who like how PowerShell works, but want a shell that feels a bit more homely on a *nix system, and don’t want to be involved in the Microsoft ecosystem (because PowerShell on Linux is really just a management interface for Microsoft’s cloud offerings).

I really like this project, but it’d need to be at least as ubiquitous as python for me to put serious effort into learning it. This is what bash will always have on these experimental shells unfortunately.

Ok dang I’ve been reading nutshell for quite a moment…

This looks incredibly powerful and cool… but also like the kind of thing that may be a bit too niche or experimental for me to learn after just 2 years of the occasional casual Bash scripting and 4 weeks of having used zsh as my terminal.

I am trying to resist