Isn’t this the problem with older shells as well? Eg you have to use e.g. awk or sed to deal with more complicated text processing. My understanding that the biggest difference between powershell (and nushell) and the older bash-like shells is that they deal with structured, object-like data rather than text. How would things be any different when “things break down” vs an older shell?
One of the nice things about bash is that it interacts very nicely with Perl and Ruby.
I wonder how these other shells work with the backticks and such in Perl/Ruby. Theoretically there is room for very cool interoperability but I wonder how it goes in practice and if any nice tools and patterns are being developed.
It's a path to scaling. You can basically dump a shell script (I assume including nushell) into your .pl/.rb file with a little punctuation and then slowly refactor it to a language that can handle greater complexity.
