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by skrtskrt 1583 days ago
So - if people instead could use a shell/script language that offers some more correctness/guarantees or fewer pitfalls, they will subconsciously make bugs in the system outside of that script because creativity?
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If they dont get to be creative in solving the problem - if their job is simply to be a human emitter of YAML, then that creativity will be spent elsewhere.
Not sure how we got from wishing we could use a language with fewer footguns than bash to… human emitter of YAML whose creativity has been ripped from them, so they will now design overly-clever systems as some sort of creative outlet?