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.

  • Aarkon@feddit.de
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    3 years ago

    I‘d say one of the primary reasons is compatibility. There is a lot of software for the Unix world that expects some kind of environment that behaves similarly to bash - imagine for instance of the bazillion of startup scripts that exist around certain tools. You’d have to be 100% backwards compatible with the bash language if you were to invent something to replace it, otherwise all those things wouldn’t work in your shell.