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Honestly, I've yet to hear a good reason not to just use Python for scripting that's any more complex than a series of commands. I resisted this for years, but
by wutbrodo 5y ago
Honestly, I've yet to hear a good reason not to just use Python for scripting that's any more complex than a series of commands. I resisted this for years, but one day realized I was only doing it because it felt intuitively right that scripts were simple extensions of the way one engages with the terminal interactively. I had to come to terms with the fact that the intuition gap is due to the fact that bash is so dang awful.
- sethammons 5y agoI like that ruby and perl can integrate with shell commands more easily than python or go.
- wutbrodo 5y agoRight, I didn't mean to single out Python, but rather to single out Bash. My comment applies to Ruby and Perl as well.
- bravetraveler 5y agoSadly I'm still there. Largely because... I killed my development mojo as a kid. C/C++ and the early web crazes. Nowadays I'll do most ad-hoc complex things with BASH... but at a certain point I tend to use Ansible. I guess one could say I indirectly write Python through Ansible/YAML :)