just has excellent support for backticks when defining global variables. I would like to just -pun intendend- use simple subshell syntax like $(foo) during globals' initialization. Backticks are akin ...

Using the legacy subshell notation ` in bash is usually discouraged. Mixing the legacy subshell notation and the newer one $ () is very discouraged, and confusing at the very least. I had to re-read ...