Comment by traceroute66

Controversial perhaps, but I now use Go where I used to be a prolific shell script script coder.

Main reasons:

   - Fewer opportunities for foot-guns
   - Ease of portability, no dependencies, e.g. no more "is jq installed ?"
   - Consistent cross-platforms, e.g. no more "is this system using GNU sed ?"
   - Modern stuff like crypto, and "internet stuff" is just quicker and easier to do in Go.