Why aren’t new terminals that use another language? It seems so antiquated getting errors for not writing the functions in the correct order among other things.
Why aren’t new terminals that use another language? It seems so antiquated getting errors for not writing the functions in the correct order among other things.
The other answers are great. But consider the following, as well.
All the mainstream package managers rely on POSIX-ish shell interpreters. Arch Linux PKGBUILD files require bash syntax, specifically.
RPM and .deb package formats literally embed shell scripts to perform pre- and post-installation tasks. They treat these scripts like hooks.
For instance, a common task would be to create requires users and directories for a program. Quite literally something like
mkdir -p /var/lib/myprogram.