This might be one of the core reasons why Linux never took off as a Desktop solution. Also looking at the comments here just shows how out of touch people are w

This might be one of the core reasons why Linux never took off as a Desktop solution. Also looking at the comments here just shows how out of touch people are with the real world... If you relish in terse commands that don't mean anything to anyone who hasn't been spending their last 20 years working on the command line, then go for it. Just realize that most of us (talking about the already small population that is software developers) are not interested is spending anytime on dealing with this junk. This is not to mention the other 99% of the population who doesn't even know what Linux or Bash is, and good riddance for them... The JavaScript code the author posted is immediately intelligible to anyone who has been keeping in touch with programming language developments over the past years. It doesn't even matter if you come from C#, Python, JS, Java, etc. It should be familiar to all of them. You might not know exactly what it does, but it seems oddly familiar. I may be making a leap here, but I would go as far as saying that this very attitude of command-line elitism is the primary reason why Linux has had zero chance to take hold in the Desktop space. The developers have no clue why "normal" people would not want to use the command line (and I am including myself in it) and their efforts of creating a GUI (just look at the junk that is KDE, Gnome and Unity... Proudly sold off as GUI) have been so out of touch with reality, that I can't even..... Anyway, each to their own. I am mostly using the command line to start a build process. While I am able to do a lot of more advanced stuff, including properly using VIM, I am actually regretting spending the time on learning it. These days I wrote most of my "bash" scripts in Python instead (just to clarify: I write scripts in Python, for which it seems well suited. I don't see Python as a viable choice for creating actual software). There are some scenarios in which Bash is still a better choice, but thankfully they are far and few between.