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Take a look at https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/issues before deciding to abandon the devil you know.
I prefer sticking with bash where necessary (where a script is the only thing that will reasonably work), and elsewhere using a programming language with testing, type checking, modularity, and compilation into something with zero or minimal runtime dependencies.
Nushell?
https://github.com/nushell/nushell
Xonsh by itself is pretty cool and I hope it continues to grow.
However, I feel like Xonsh needs a killer app to really demonstrate the advantages of the semantics Xonsh provides. Maybe something like Rawdog (https://github.com/AbanteAI/rawdog) + Xonsh?
Check out marcel (https://marceltheshell.org). It's yet another pipe-objects-instead-of-strings shell (like nushell). Unlike nushell, you pipe Python values. Marcel has no sublanguages (like awk, sed, ...). Instead, when logic is needed, you write Python code, delimited by parens. So:
(USER)
Obligatory mention of rash[0] which I absolutely adore but because it never got the love it desires, the REPL experience is quite lacking. The scripting however is genuinely pretty delightful
[0] https://rash-lang.org/
https://github.com/kellyjonbrazil/jc - "CLI tool and python library that converts the output of popular command-line tools, file-types, and common strings to JSON, YAML, or Dictionaries. This allows piping of output to tools like jq and simplifying automation scripts."
