I'm not sure how bash is considered funky, it's nearly first class on all boxes. Nice thing about this tool you just use `script` type out your commands, copy it your modules and your done.
As bad as Ruby is, it’s still better than Bash and you can do all the same effortless execution of random commands in your script like you would in bash. If one can’t be bothered to write it in a real language like Rust or even Python, you could at least do Ruby.
The point wasn’t that Python is better than Ruby, they are about the same IMO. The point was they are both better than Bash, and Ruby actually makes it super convenient to write bash-like scripts, so there’s no excuse to not be using Ruby.
Python and Ruby are both functionally equivalent in my book. The difference is prevalence; for systems tools, Python is more common because it comes installed by default with more Linux distros and in my experience anyways, is faster to respond to breaking upstream issues and build failures, which is almost certainly just due to more widespread usage. I have nothing against Ruby, it’s a pretty language and does what you need and has good metaprogramming support. Just saying for a tool you want lots of people to adopt, it’s more mainstream to choose Python.