"I've seen startups burning $5k/mo on distributed compute clusters to process <10GB of daily logs, purely because setting up a 'Modern Data Stack' is what gets you promoted, while writing a robust bash script is seen as 'unscalable' or 'hacky'."

Also seen strange responses from HN commenters when it's mentioned that bash is large and slow compared to ash and bash is better suited for use as an interactive shell whereas ash is better suited for use as a non-interactive shell, i.e., a scripting shell

I also use ash (with tabcomplete) as an interactive shell for several reasons