Comment by jeppesen-io

To have a real discussion on the future of shells while ignoring the PowerShell is not an honest discussion. I'm not sure why you'd want to run a 30 year old script when the computing environment has changed so much around those scripts. Regardless of what future you see for PowerShell as a product, the concepts and implementation, is a great place to see what works well and what didn't, particularly when it comes to non-text oriented pipeing