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  • SinTan1729@programming.dev
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    9 days ago

    It’s perfect for daily interactive use, but terrible for scripting. I write almost all my scripts in bash, the only exceptions being convenience scripts for fish itself.

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      9 days ago

      Same, but I don’t think it was ever intended differently; I mean the word interactive is literally in the name. If you want portable scripts, use bash. For simple helpers, quickly define a function. If you feel your script becomes too long, use Python.

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        9 days ago

        Agree, although I’ve recently replaced the python usecase with Go. Almost as easy to write, but much faster and safer.

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            3 days ago

            Well, it’s statically typed, and it’s memory safe. (There can be some race conditions during concurrent execution, but that’s not relevant for simple scripts.)

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          9 days ago

          Oh yeah, I never used Python myself and did some very simple (but IMHO too much hassle in bash) Go stuff some time ago. It’s a really good language for that, and if you can’t build on the target, the binary is statically linked anyways.