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Breaking shell scripts sounds like a good idea to me. The faster they die the better the world gets.
by Starlevel004 2y ago
Breaking shell scripts sounds like a good idea to me. The faster they die the better the world gets.
- Rygian 2y agoThat's going to be a very bumpy road, even if everyone were to agree that the destination is appealing.
- bigstrat2003 2y agoYeah for better or for worse compatibility is king. I despise shell scripts, they are an absolute nightmare to work with and full of footguns. But they are so commonplace that people are not going to tolerate YOLO breaking changes.
- raverbashing 2y agoYeah I think ESH While we have more modern shells the fact that bash (or even sh) is the "common denominator" 30 yrs on is both good and awful We need a PowerShell for Linux
- ygra 2y agoNot even that is free of footguns, especially around argument parsing and calling native commands.
- chikere232 2y agoPerhaps unix isn't for you?
- makeitdouble 2y agoThing is, they don't die. Instead you get the short end of the stick. You'd have to be pretty darn important for an org to fix their scripts because of your name or the username you created. Of it would need to happen at a larger scale, but then that wouldn't be so controversial in the first place.