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Lines of code are irrelevant compared to readability, and the latter is where bash loses hard. Time to write and maintain these scripts is far less with typescr

by moring 4y ago

Lines of code are irrelevant compared to readability, and the latter is where bash loses hard. Time to write and maintain these scripts is far less with typescript. The remainder of your arguments seems to be based on wrong assumptions about what our build scripts are doing. "Filtering text files" doesn't happen there. OTOH, in typescript I can include a library for the deployment on various GCP cloud services in a single line in package.json -- how many lines is that in bash? (edit: the sarcasm might not be obvious. Nobody I have ever met knows about a GCP deployment library for bash, nor about an NPM-like platform for bash snippets. Installing command line tools via the platform's package manager doesn't work in practice for various reasons.)

BlargMcLarg 4y ago
>Lines of code are irrelevant compared to readability They aren't irrelevant. LoC has influence on readability. Try reading a terse book versus a more condensed book if you don't agree. It's neither as easy as "make it as short as possible" nor "just write as elaborate as possible".
alpaca128 4y ago
Knowing Bash is about more than just writing build scripts. I use it every day for one-off tasks and trying to use anything else instead would be a huge waste of time. > GCP cloud services in a single line in package.json -- how many lines is that in bash? My whole point was: use the right tool for the job. Sure nobody would do GCP stuff in Bash, just like it would be ludicrous to do certain tasks in TypeScript instead. The original statement was about Bash being a useful skill, and imho that's practically undeniable. > Installing command line tools via the platform's package manager doesn't work in practice for various reasons I wish installing dependencies via package.json and npm was as reliable, it would save me quite some time.

by moring 4y ago

BlargMcLarg 4y ago

>Lines of code are irrelevant compared to readability They aren't irrelevant. LoC has influence on readability. Try reading a terse book versus a more condensed book if you don't agree. It's neither as easy as "make it as short as possible" nor "just write as elaborate as possible".

alpaca128 4y ago

Knowing Bash is about more than just writing build scripts. I use it every day for one-off tasks and trying to use anything else instead would be a huge waste of time. > GCP cloud services in a single line in package.json -- how many lines is that in bash? My whole point was: use the right tool for the job. Sure nobody would do GCP stuff in Bash, just like it would be ludicrous to do certain tasks in TypeScript instead. The original statement was about Bash being a useful skill, and imho that's practically undeniable. > Installing command line tools via the platform's package manager doesn't work in practice for various reasons I wish installing dependencies via package.json and npm was as reliable, it would save me quite some time.