I 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 som

I 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.)