GNU Bash 5.1 Released With New "SRANDOM" Variable As A New Means Of Randomness

[swagg_boi]

I still use

#!/usr/bin/env sh

mostly just because I'm too lazy to learn/use the bashisms but I don't knock anyone for using them anymore given the ubiquity of bash. "Portable shell script" is an oxymoron to me

[andreano]

arrays seem to be coming to sh in the next POSIX spec.

OMG, finally! Do you have some news to share?

As someone who has had to deal with busybox, I agree that most of the bashisms are trivially avoidable, and that arrays, as you mention, is the single exception to that. I call POSIX shell disqualified for purposes of safe shellscripting because of that: Arrays are a necessity for correctness way too often in shellscripting.

[piotrj3]

Shell scripts should be written in POSIX sh, unless there's a reason not to. bash and zsh mostly add interactive features. Even arrays seem to be coming to sh in the next POSIX spec.

Also, there's nothing "modern" about bash (not that "modern" actually means anything these days).

Incomming "modern" sh with entire chromium behind as engine.