Also, do y'all call main() in the if block or do you just put the code you want to run in the if block?
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You mean the "want to be zsh but with a specific config instead of having the liberty to do anything" shell? /s
Jokes aside, regardless of your shell of choice, in companies there are tons of scripts that launch programs, processes and so on, that will generally be coded in bash. Scripts that process files, take the output, send emails... All in a single script. The shell of remote nodes won't be zsh or fish, it will be bash, and a lot of them won't even have vim installed, only vi. Like it or not, bash is heavily used in a looot of places.
In many environments we can't even assume bash, but are stuck with just sh