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Well, and in your comment here, you're writing something more substantive than "why not use...", which was literally the gist of several of the top level commen
by escape_goat 11y ago
Well, and in your comment here, you're writing something more substantive than "why not use...", which was literally the gist of several of the top level comments.
I'm not sure I would characterize it as a "because my pet language" tool; rather, it allow one's main production language to use shell pipes, which can be quite handy for a variety of uses.
- eropple 11y agoYeah, that's fair, I got a little carried away with that characterization. A thing that does shell piping is great. Where I get salty is the suggested use case of using it to replace bog-standard tools because they're not JavaScript. Monolinguists are bad hires in virtually any shop; at prior gigs I've dealt with loads of developers who honestly thought that anything that isn't the programming language they argue about and reinvent ways to concatenate and minify is "devops". People who push these mindsets are toxic and should be burned out of functional engineering cultures.