> I'm not sure I follow you but it wasn't a joke. Shell scripts are notoriously error-prone. I absolutely do not trust shell script authors to get everything right.
This is an extremely naive take as are the rest of your comments. Any language in the wrong hands is error prone.
"error-prone" means bugs are more likely than the alternatives. It doesn't mean that the alternatives completely eliminate the possibility of bugs. Come on.
It doesn't need to be, but there are some advantages in being able to have system startup scripts in the same language that you do one-liners in at the terminal.
This is an extremely naive take as are the rest of your comments. Any language in the wrong hands is error prone.