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I could see M1 causing issues with compiling. How complex is the stuff you are doing? Too much for shell?

• rtpg 4y ago
  I mean shell scripts are just annoying? You don't have even the basics like dictionaries, argparse and friends don't exist, some weird space can throw everything off (yes I know about shellcheck). Every common action is some different tool that you might or might not correctly use (let's not even get into implementation differences for stuff like `find` between Mac and Linux). And yeah you can use curl for web requests. But when your problem then becomes "make a web request, take a chunk out of that" you're looking at curl _and_ jq. And clean error handling... I know how to write shell scripts, but I think I hit their abstraction ceilings way too early, especially if I'm looking to write something that is maintainable by other people on the team. I know people talk about how every machine will have some shell, but when you think about it a bit more all the "nice" shell utils are not installed by default. All the more power to people who can write clean shell scripts. I try to, but am not good at it. But I know how to write Python (or JS, or Java, or C if someone demanded I do it...)