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The only semi-realistic way I can see Bash becoming mostly obsolete is with a tool that provides automated migration of large scripts, and the only project I know of that's even attempting that is Oil: https://www.oilshell.org/
But for spawning a command in a subprocess, there really ought to be a standard OS API that doesn't involve invoking a shell at all. I expect that most or all implementations of
posix_spawnandexecvedon't invoke a shell, but the standard call to start a process on Windows,CreateProcess, apparently does involvecmd.exefor some bizarre reason, and that's why this is a problem in the first place.