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yeah same. As a front-end webdev who writes JS frequently, I've _never_ written shell scripts and thought "Wow, I'd really rather use JavaScript for this"! Not
by thex10 5y ago
yeah same. As a front-end webdev who writes JS frequently, I've _never_ written shell scripts and thought "Wow, I'd really rather use JavaScript for this"!
Not saying it doesn't happen, just that it hasn't been my experience.
- lloydatkinson 5y agoYou’ve never written a bash script and needed to parse, format, concat lots of strings? What about arrays of strings? All of which is easier in just about any modern language.
- kakuri 5y agoAs a front-end dev who works with JS all the time and never writes shell scripts, every time I have to deal with shell scripts I think "I'd really rather use JS for this".
- SCLeo 5y agoI am also a frontend dev. My experience has been completely opposite from yours. Node.js is my go-to tool for writing automation scripts. I think these are some reasons why our mileages differ: - I need my scripts to work in both Windows and Linux. - I am not very experienced with bash or other shell. - Most of my "automation work" only involves reading text from a file, transform it, and write to another file. (Generating SQL commands, doing stats about town names, etc.)