I can't believe how this opinion got so popular, because I disagree completely with the Bash bashing.
I totally get it for people who only ever used .BAT files (our entire IT department at work). It must feel like a godsend to them. Bash of course never worked for these people; running it on Windows via MinGW/Cygwin is just a bad experience.
But the relentless bashing of Bash itself and the longstanding Linux (and Unix) ecosystem alternatives in general is unjustified in my opinion.
Bash itself is elegant, powerful and concise, and just works on Linux. You can write spaghetti code, but you don't have to. Readable scripts are just as easy. "Skill issue" if you will.
And yes, Bash-isms exist, and I got reminded of that fact when Ubuntu shipped Dash as the default /bin/sh shell for a while or when I'm on macOS. But it's really not a huge deal: just use the real !#/bin/bash and ignore the "um actually in Posix..." complainers on the internet.
I do appreciate that Windows finally has a capable scripting language, and while I don't like the lengthy syntax / cmdlets, I also see some benefits. But Bash is still great nonetheless.
I totally get it for people who only ever used .BAT files (our entire IT department at work). It must feel like a godsend to them. Bash of course never worked for these people; running it on Windows via MinGW/Cygwin is just a bad experience.
But the relentless bashing of Bash itself and the longstanding Linux (and Unix) ecosystem alternatives in general is unjustified in my opinion.
Bash itself is elegant, powerful and concise, and just works on Linux. You can write spaghetti code, but you don't have to. Readable scripts are just as easy. "Skill issue" if you will.
And yes, Bash-isms exist, and I got reminded of that fact when Ubuntu shipped Dash as the default /bin/sh shell for a while or when I'm on macOS. But it's really not a huge deal: just use the real !#/bin/bash and ignore the "um actually in Posix..." complainers on the internet.
I do appreciate that Windows finally has a capable scripting language, and while I don't like the lengthy syntax / cmdlets, I also see some benefits. But Bash is still great nonetheless.