[wazbug]

Ruby is nice in this regard though :-)

    x = `git --version`
    puts(x) #=> "git version 2.43.0"

[riddley]

Ruby is nice in every regard :) Most languages have some form of backticks to run an external binary. When I left my original comment I got a phone call in the middle of it and rushed it, sorry about that. What I really meant was having the versatility of the big 3 file descriptors along with return codes, etc. You can use Open3 (in the ruby case) but it's unwieldy compared to, say bash.

[KerrAvon]

Ruby is really nice in this regard, in fact — you’re not limited to backticks; you can use any quote delimiters you want.