TL;DR Windows’ shell sucks so people write tools. Tools are fun to use. Linux’s shell is amazing so people write terrible bash scripts and makefiles. Be sensible. Use Python. Use C. The rest of the post is me ranting, letting off some steam. Have fun, and don’t take it too seriously. 🐢 A Story of Shells 🐢 1 2 3 my_var=$(application arg0 arg1) for /f %%i in ('application arg0 arg1') do set my_var=%%i 🪟 Windows 🪟 I’ve been a Windows user for a very long time.
