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Maintenance. Because seems they are usually written/owned/optimized by some build brainiac that becomes a bottleneck or leaves at some point.

• TeMPOraL 8y ago
  The equivalent "modern" workflow is written, owned and optimized by build brainiacs with turnover on the order of weeks. I'd say that maintenance of "crude shell scripts" is much less difficult and expensive than keeping up with the latest webdev "standard practice".
  • untog 8y ago
    You'd be wrong. I'm not arguing that Webpack is a deeply confusing system, but there are tens of thousands of people out there figuring it out too. Almost any question has an answer a Google search away. Your bespoke bash script has no such community.
    • TeMPOraL 8y ago
      But my bespoke bash script has longer shelf life, which is the entire point here.
    • adrianN 8y ago
      On the other hand, most developers speak at least enough bash to read bash scripts, and bash's backwards compatibility is pretty good.