I used to say the same thing, back when the only bash I knew was from whatever tidbits I picked up as I needed them. Then I got more familiar with bash. Now, ne

I used to say the same thing, back when the only bash I knew was from whatever tidbits I picked up as I needed them. Then I got more familiar with bash. Now, nearly everything I write is bash. I have realized that more complex languages mostly just make things.... more complex, rather than simplifying them. For simple solutions I stick to simple tools, even if it takes more than 100 lines. Here's one tool I wrote in Bash. It's an alternative to Terragrunt. 616 lines. https://github.com/pwillis-els/terraformsh https://github.com/pwillis-els/terraformsh Here's another one. A static-app package manager/versioner/pinner thing. 409 lines of POSIX shell (the code is intentionally ugly, don't take this as an example of good code). https://github.com/peterwwillis/clinst/blob/main/clinst https://github.com/peterwwillis/clinst/blob/main/clinst For both of these tools, 90% of what they do is just managing environment variables and calling other programs, and that's what shell scripts are best at.