(blog author here) That is the kind of thinking which just unnecessarily gatekeeps innovation.
There's always someone "in control" of a server. But even more important, there's always someone (or usually a group) in control of deciding which shell should be the default on an OS. And these are the people that should be reached somehow.
And Oils is just as much a snowflake as Bash, Tcsh or Ksh. All of them are POSIX compliant (though not sure with tcsh), all of them bring own additional features. But the only shell with additional features which don't suck (by being 30yo) is from the Oils project.
> The one area where I've stopped using bash/shell is in complex shell scripts which I'm now writing in TypeScript and executing with Bun by using: #! /usr/bin/env bun
(blog author here) This is exactly what's wrong with bash (and zsh). It should NOT be hard to write a bit more complex scripts. But it's so ingrained into our heads that shell is "too hard" that people use ts/js/python/etc. And usually the UX to writing "glue code" is much worse than with a good shell like Ysh.
(Blog author here) Hehe yes, Use it for a long time now! But at least in my bubble people already talk quite a bit about it, other than Oils, Radicle or Simplex :)
There's always someone "in control" of a server. But even more important, there's always someone (or usually a group) in control of deciding which shell should be the default on an OS. And these are the people that should be reached somehow.
And Oils is just as much a snowflake as Bash, Tcsh or Ksh. All of them are POSIX compliant (though not sure with tcsh), all of them bring own additional features. But the only shell with additional features which don't suck (by being 30yo) is from the Oils project.