The big problem with trying to move on from BASH is that it's everywhere and is excellent at tying together other unix tools and navigating the filesystem - it's at just the right abstraction level to be the duct tape of languages. Moving to other languages provides a lot more safety and power, but then you can't rely on the correct version being necessarily installed on some machine you haven't touched in 10 years.
I'm not a fan of powershell myself as the only time I've tried it (I don't do much with Windows), I hit a problem with it (or the object I was using) not being able to handle more than 256 characters for a directory and file. That meant that I just installed cygwin and used a BASH script instead.
I'm not a fan of powershell myself as the only time I've tried it (I don't do much with Windows), I hit a problem with it (or the object I was using) not being able to handle more than 256 characters for a directory and file. That meant that I just installed cygwin and used a BASH script instead.