And that's okay. Personally, I'm thrilled by the idea of a new shell. I don't plan to use Crush in production (yet?!) but I definitely plan on installing it on my laptop.
I'm excited to see how things go. I understand, for a while, it won't have all the bells and whistles of zsh. But that's okay. Everything has to start somewhere. I remember back when alacritty didn't even have easy scrollback!
Best of luck to Crosh and its author, liljencrantz!
It's a supercharged version of bash that works with Windows, but instead of piping character-only data, it can pipe structured data between commands in the form of objects. The reason I ask is because, while it adds a ton of flexibility to shell scripting (to the point where I consider it to be a language), it is also quite complex.
The benefit of shell scripting is that it is simple enough to have as a tertiary language that you can pickup and use after a six month hiatus. Once you get into more powerful language territory, there are a lot more components to memorize and it becomes difficult (for me at least) to keep those idioms in my head if they go unused for months.
I definitely did not find that to be the case. I've learned and relearned shell scripting a bunch of times. I always forget it and need to relearn it. Worse than perl.
I've been using/abusing traditional shell scripting languages for over a decade now and I still struggle with the rough edges (especially quoting/escaping/argument passing).
Crosh is the ChromeOS shell!