alt Hacker NewsI already avoid bash scripting so I lose very little. Shell scripting beyond throwaway one-liners is a problem not a solution.
(Well that and all my machines come from the same NixOS configs.)
I already avoid bash scripting so I lose very little. Shell scripting beyond throwaway one-liners is a problem not a solution.
(Well that and all my machines come from the same NixOS configs.)
Ha that’s funny, considering nixos is 99% stdenv which is one of the worst bash monstrosities in existence, and drives people ever further into the swamp of bash. (Ever tried to debug stdenv setup hooks? I still have water damage from the tears.)
I have personally embraced the insanity but let’s not kid ourselves about nixos basically just being three bashes in a trench coat.
Basically https://xkcd.com/224/ , but s/lisp/nix/ s/perl/bash/