[jalanb]

How about OP does anyway? Bash as a scripting language is fucking great!

Since when is simplicity an argument against writing programs? Whether scripts or frameworks? "Hard to read" is not neccessarily an inherent trait[1] of the language, and more likely wrong on some PEBKAC level.

I have a customised environment at near 10k lines of bash in 5 projects, all of it in the correct tool for the job, aka a proper scripting language, so I can suggest another use for your thumb :-)

1: https://www.reddit.com/r/commandline/comments/2kq8oa/the_mos...