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The reality is that blame shaming devs for not learning something isn't effective. No matter your personal beliefs, nobody is getting fired for not knowing the
by klabb3 5y ago
The reality is that blame shaming devs for not learning something isn't effective. No matter your personal beliefs, nobody is getting fired for not knowing the intricacies of sed or bash or awk. The only options are keeping archaic artifacts around and have the elders maintain it, or improve it for everyone. I have tremendous respect for our unix/posix legacy but at the same time they didn't get everything right. How could they?
That said, it's harder to build consensus today. Currently people are replacing shell scripts with all kinds of stuff, and that's not good either. We need something good enough and ubiquitous, imo.