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Idk, nushell is pretty portable? And if you use mise for installing tools, I think you’d get very far indeed What might you be missing? Nushell is lacking some shell features like native backgrounding, but I find I don’t really care

By now, nushell wraps most of the coreutils so you don’t have to fiddle with escaping and switches etc etc any more `ls dir -l` (switch after argument) works on EVERY platform because this is a nushell wrapper you’re invoking

I think they've added background jobs fairly recently-(ish)? But same, I don't really miss them...

We have a portable shell scripting language at home Tim. **Tim gets home** It’s Perl 5.

You mean more portable than sh? Meaning, must run natively on Windows? sh works basically everywhere except Windows.

Not just the shell, but shell + utilities. Strong typing too with something akin to a language server protocol for commands please so that shell completions can be data-driven and informed.

Normally that statement would be followed by a "and here is the ultimate one, nothing will be needed after this". Which normally is followed by the same chain of events.