> but coreutils and other utilities that Bash is really built on top of This really is the problem with bash. It doesn't have a stdlib. Posix tried but didn't

> but coreutils and other utilities that Bash is really built on top of This really is the problem with bash. It doesn't have a stdlib. Posix tried but didn't succeed in sufficiently standardizing userlands. Bash is friendly and easy to hack on, but hard to manage at scale, for this reason. And this crops up all the damn time when you're working with compiled languages. Nobody wants to have two languages. But if one of your languages is compiled, then nobody wants to write and maintain literally everything in that language. At some point you need scripting. Bash is usually what's reached for. But OSX doesn't ship a recent bash. And your coders are probably running OSX. So you have to write scripts that target ancient bash so the devs can work locally, but also work in the cattle farm. You'll spend lots and lots of time fighting it. Or have ridiculous 'setup' docs that will trip up newbies and you'll have to troubleshoot their setups when they inevitably not follow them right or they just don't work leaving their personal systems in an unknown state. Or just, yannow, use a scripting language to script with instead of a shell. Or, hear me out here, use the 'scripting' language to build your whole app. You very very very probably can. Ruby's object oriented and is way friendlier than bash, ditto for Python.