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I don’t think you will find a silver bullet. If you switch away from shell and its set of trade-offs you will face another set of trade-offs with the next langu

by mjul 6y ago

I don’t think you will find a silver bullet. If you switch away from shell and its set of trade-offs you will face another set of trade-offs with the next language. The art is to select trade-offs that benefit the main line of work you want to do without causing too much trouble. Personally my scripting preferences have changed over time depending on the types of problems I had to solve and what else I were doing at the same time. I have never found The One Solution but seen things slowly change back and forth over the years.

pdimitar 6y ago
> I don’t think you will find a silver bullet. If you switch away from shell and its set of trade-offs you will face another set of trade-offs with the next language. Sadly that's quite true. So let me correct my statement: I am looking for "shell scripting on steroids" for when I intuit (or discover after 10 minutes of trying) that normal shell scripting won't cut it. I'll still use it but I want to have an extra tool in my belt for those cases when I need something a bit feature-rich but still quick to iterate on. For now, looking through the sub-thread and brushing off on old knowledge and searching the net for an hour or so, my 3 top contestants are (in that priority order) -- OCaml, Ruby, the RC shell.