A few years ago I would have disagreed, but today I quite enjoy it. What changes my opinion was mostly having a decent IDE configured to deal with the annoying bash syntax errors, and a quicker way to prototype.

Though in generqal I always thought Bash scripting to be fun, due to the wide array of programs available that you can directly invoke in your scripts script. The feeling of gluing programs together with pipes into a larger abstraction is just amazing, and bash does that very elegantly.

That last part is why I routinely stick with bash for quick scripts. For example, I usually create boolean values to check for a proper config by using grep or grep -c.

Do you have any recommendations for an IDE to use for Bash scripting?

Shellcheck (https://www.shellcheck.net/) is essential, with or without IDE.

Pycharm has it built in or as a plugin now too.

Thank you for this. The world needs more people like you. Also, well written article and the timeline detail was great!