## FAQs
### Why another shell?
- <del>for fun</del>
- <del>to learn Rust</del>
- <del>have a shell that can customize a bit for my own needs</del>
Because we can.
### Compare to bash?
Bash is where most people come from and familiar with. So cicada is trying
to support common cases that bash supports. Cicada will only be a "subset"
of bash. <del>Currently cicada does not have scripting/function ability.</del>
### When will functions get supported in cicada?
<del>Maybe someday in future, and it won't be complex as bash scriping for sure.</del>
Scripting/functions **have been added** since cicada 0.9.7.
### Is cicada POSIX-compatible?
As the above answers hints, while cicada is trying to be POSIX, but it will
not be a fully POSIX shell. However, if any command pattern is common and
cicada is missing, we could add it.
### Will my bash/zsh scripts continue work in cicada?
You can invoke scripts with `$ ./my-script.sh` as long as it have
"#!/bin/bash" stuff on the top. Or you can always run them as:
`$ bash my-script.sh`.
Cicada does not recognize these scripts itself. You cannot integrate these
shell scripts/functions in RC files to initiate cicada shell.
### Windows support?
Cicada is a Unix shell, sorry. There are a lot of alternative cool shells
for Windows, for example [xonsh](https://xon.sh/).