They gotta have a computer too. And a source of power.

And my ax... Oh, this is hackernews.

"I write code and am curious I am a hacker"

"Lol, no I break into computer systems I am a hacker"

"Geeze hell no I have an axe, I am an OG hacker"

I don’t think they need a shell unless uv itself requires it, the shebang is handled by the exec syscall.

Of course. Hense the bash shebang - the shebang is the step before the shell is used. Thanks.

And an operating system

No, not a shell. Just a /usr/bin/env