Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by avg_dev 1416 days ago
I do feel like we are all a little beholden to bash and it is tiring. While I will put simple work into simple bash scripts I always use shellcheck and do ‘set -euo pipefail’. For the life of me I can’t remember what that is or why I need it, I just know that I do. (I’d be comfortable looking it up if I actually cared enough to.)

Anything more than trivial I do in a high level programming language like Go (previously I would use Ruby or Perl).

From everything I’ve seen PS is a nice direction to go in.

I wish there was a sudden upheaval and everybody used a shell that wasn’t so legacy-cruft-laden.