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I replaced recently an unreadable bash-script through a small maintainable JS program. It's doing the same thing as the bash script and accepting the same para

I replaced recently an unreadable bash-script through a small maintainable JS program. It's doing the same thing as the bash script and accepting the same parameters but does not require a black belt in regexp and going through hundreds linux/unix command man pages to understand what it does. I think you'd be surprised how many modern applications are written in JavaScript or Python. One of the more prominent ones is VSCode.

arcturus17 6y ago
There's that famous Knuth exchange with another programmer where Knuth develops a super-complex data structure and algorithm to solve a problem, and the other programmer responds "that's cool, but I can do that in a single command line by piping three Unix commands". There is a case to be made for programmers being at least familiar with Unix utilities and shell scripting so that they can unlock the superpowers described in that anecdote. However, I largely agree with your sentiment - I pretty much do all of my scripting in JavaScript and Python and would not be particularly happy to have to deal with a large bash script.