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> posix shell is portable: it'll run on debian, ubuntu, on openbsd, in an alpine container, on illumos! arch! even horrible old AIX! > lists three Linux distri
by delta_p_delta_x 4y ago
> posix shell is portable: it'll run on debian, ubuntu, on openbsd, in an alpine container, on illumos! arch! even horrible old AIX!
> lists three Linux distributions and three Unixes: calls POSIX shell 'portable'.
You know where POSIX shell scripts don't run natively? Windows. If you're going to conveniently exclude about half the developer demographic and about 90% of the user demographic to push a not-very-valid point... But given the aesthetic of the website, I somehow get the feeling the author couldn't care less about Windows (or its users).
Please use a proper glue language with nice types and syntax, like Python or PowerShell. IMO PowerShell >> POSIX shells and children; interop with full .NET already gives it a several point-lead over POSIX shells.
P.S., I notice increasingly more bloggers abandoning sentence case, and it makes for very difficult reading.