2026-08-04 00:12 UTC
@mjdxp@labyrinth.zone it's almost all like tl;dr: legacy reasons
you can look around mac os x and see like the tree rings formed by the various things they thought were going to be a big thing and then next to it the corpse of that thing left where they killed it
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@mdhughes@appdot.net 2026-08-04 00:56
@rakslice@mastodon.social @mjdxp@labyrinth.zone The funny part with shells is, bash was not their first choice. csh, then tcsh, was the traditional NeXTstep/Mac OS X shell for 30 years, everything was made for that originally. bash came in as an attempt to be "popular" instead of good. After shellshock, bash was revealed to be just a virus loader, had to go. I'm still surprised they went to zsh (which I prefer) instead of back to tcsh.