Thank you, I really appreciate people taking their time to read these ideas :) .

Hi. I think that before introducing this for bots, it should be baked in package managers in order to gain traction (this idea, or something along the same lines).

your nickname (almost) fits the question xD.

On a more serious note, not all is doom and gloom in NPM, they have improved a lot during these past years.

Sourcing the .env requires extra knowledge about shell scripting (even if it’s basic knowledge, not everyone has it).

On the other hand, not all shells are POSIX compatible (for example, PowerShell in Windows), so if we want to make a cross-platform solution, it becomes a bit more complicated (and also requires more knowledge than the previous case).

Regarding what you commented about those incompatible “improvements”, I understand what you mean, but until now I didn’t find any case of this (so far, variable expansion is a native functionality of most shells nowadays).