> Besides the fact that shell scripts aren't scalable…

What are you trying to say there? My understanding is that, way under the hood, a set of shell scripts is in fact enabling the scalable nature of… the internet.

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...that's only for early internet, and the early internet is effing broken at best

> My understanding is that, way under the hood, a set of shell scripts is in fact enabling the scalable nature of… the internet.

I sure hope not. The state of error handling in shell scripts alone is enough to disqualify them for serious production systems.

If you're extremely smart and disciplined it's theoretically possible to write a shell script that handles error states correctly. But there are better things to spend your discipline budget on.