[andreineculau]

I've also been having bash as a strict req for tool language. As you say there are 1% or less cases where you can benefit from using smth else but that's 1%! My team had js as the main language and that's what we had that 1% in. Mostly no-deps scripts but where deps where needed we could hack around npx to install the deps on-demands. I would use deno today for that actually.

But! Almost nobody gets it. If you're into operations: "here we write our tool chain in Python". If you're into dev: "here we write our tool chain in js/go/php/etc/etc Bash would just be a +1"

+1??? You still need to write bash, or shell in general, for orchestration of build/ci/cd pipelines. If someone thinks that in 2021 they can escape learning shell, they are out of their minds. So no, it's not a +1.

Bash is the language that is not only available quite everywhere but it's also the one that allows you to write oneliner solutions https://twitter.com/andreineculau/status/1466107915450916867... and move on.

As devs we should spend 10x more on solid foundations that work as many of us, for as many years to come, than we do on hip-new-thingie-that-promises-to-fix-all-my-problems. It's as if we took the regex joke and our brains could only comprehend: I'm never using a regex. Keep it simple? Never.