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Is it unreasonable for open source projects to expect Windows contributors to have bash installed?
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Yes? If on other OSes there is an understanding that not everyone has the same exact setup, why would windows be different?
Because every single other operating system comes with bash installed.
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Doesn't MacOS come with zsh now? They used to ship a ridiculously old version of Bash (meaning that newer scripts would sometimes fail on MacOS) but I think they switched to zsh at some point.
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macOS Catalina switches the _default_ shell to zsh. bash (3.2.57, which might rightly be called “ridiculously old”) is still present on Catalina.https://scriptingosx.com/2019/06/moving-to-zsh/ …
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Why does bash need to be such an integral part of the project though? I understand it depends on language, but to focus on JavaScript for a minute, to my understanding the differences can be worked around
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Sometimes when you're developing cross-platform on Unix systems, its nice being able to write a bash script & have it run without worrying if the user has bash installed. This argument was stronger before Apple decided to make ZSH the default shell
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