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fracustoday at 12:26 AM2 repliesview on HN

I'm fluent in bash but I have to say it is the jankiest, messiest language I've ever used. I can't believe another default hasn't totally obliterated it into obsolescence. Maybe because it is so ubiquitous people are afraid of all the work required to move. Wait, that's me.


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cervedtoday at 1:20 AM

People are always shitting on bash but I like it.

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BirAdamtoday at 12:45 AM

Same. I have started to rewrite my largest scripts in Ruby tho. These are the kind of scripts where performance began to be too rough and issues to ignore.