[Galanwe]

> there was this common saying:

> "If the first version of your shell script is more than five lines long, you should have written it in Python."

Seriously, these kind of "common knowledge", "universal truth in a sentence" sayings are often the mark of wannabe guru mid career engineers that have no clue what they are talking about.

[jsnelgro]

This is a toxic comment that adds nothing to the conversation.

[goldenkey]

I don't know, the jo command seems a lot more readable to me than compressing json to a one line string. How is it toxic to call out a silly truthism?

[MathMonkeyMan]

I agree with Galanwe, but

> [...] are often the mark of wannabe guru mid career engineers that have no clue what they are talking about.

is the "toxic" part.

At least he says "are often," as not to accuse the anonymous mid career Google engineer.