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I have a small section in my regular training for fresher developers where I teach shell. I sometimes wonder if it's needed anymore.
by noufalibrahim 2y ago
I have a small section in my regular training for fresher developers where I teach shell. I sometimes wonder if it's needed anymore.
- DaSHacka 2y agoNot needed because they typically know as much already, because knowing how to use a shell is no longer useful?
- worksonmine 2y agoSecond I assume. It's frustrating how little my peers care about the magic of the shell.
- lukan 2y agoWell, what do they use instead?
- worksonmine 2y agoVsCode, some git GUI and whatever command they can copy/paste from the docs to run the project. Understanding the why isn't important. This means they stagnate and don't explore further, they don't even understand how much can be done with coreutils and pipes. To them the terminal emulator is for installing packages and running projects. Just trying to get them to use aliases is impossible and to them I'm a showoff for actually liking vim.
- ricktdotorg 2y agoso much of the orchestration for servers that we greybeards had to for our unixen back in the day was shell script-based. nowadays its puppet or terraform or ansible or capistrano or [...]
- anal_reactor 2y agoPresenter: I have changed this ten-line function to `xbdbwhh%¢|=€=%[©=¢==33` which is much shorter. It crashes for inputs that have four consecutive letters "j", but we don't have inputs that four consecutive letters "j". Audience: Why on Earth would you do this Bash community: FUCK YES