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That doesn't solve the problem that bash is completely useless for manipulating JSON. It certainly would make writing Python scripts that need to interact with
by DonHopkins 2y ago
That doesn't solve the problem that bash is completely useless for manipulating JSON.
It certainly would make writing Python scripts that need to interact with other programs easier. But Python doesn't desperately NEED to interact with so many other programs for such simple tasks like enumerating files or making http requests or parsing json, the way bash does.
- Kwpolska 2y agoBash is useless at JSON now. There's nothing stopping Bash from introducing native JSON parsing.
- DonHopkins 2y agoThen you have to install the new version of bash on every system you depend on json parsing, negating the argument that bash is installed everywhere. If bash was ever actually going to get json parsing in reality, it should have done that two decades ago like all the other scripting languages, since JSON is 23 years old. So don't hold your breath.