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Who said anything about bash scripts? There are other shell scripts in the sea. Also, shell scripting is much more universal, so you can use the same infrastruc
by Sanddancer 11y ago
Who said anything about bash scripts? There are other shell scripts in the sea. Also, shell scripting is much more universal, so you can use the same infrastructure to manage your web servers, your database servers, etc. A language-specific build system means that when you need to start adding components made in other languages, you need to reinvent a lot more tooling that should have been universal to begin with.
- madeofpalk 11y ago> Who said anything about bash scripts? There are other shell scripts in the sea. Also, shell scripting is much more universal[...] I guess it depends a lot on your infra, but wouldn't (ba)sh be the most universal shell? so if shell = bash, then "shell script" = "bash script"
- webromance 11y agoIt would. I use fish shell here, yet I prefer writing my build tasks with plain JavaScript. Fly seems to be a thin abstraction to accomplish the same. Now, the most striking advantage is support for generators/co-routine style for async stuff and also promises right from the get go.