[creesch]

> It's shocking how everybody acts like senior engineers might need months to learn a new language.

I've seen instances where people were worried it would take someone a month longer to fully onboard. Completely ignoring the fact that *fully* onboarding in any complex environment is going to take several months anyway.

I'd also argue that in the case of setting up your scripts, it matters even less. Automation scripts shouldn't be so complex that you fully need to know the ins and outs of the language they are written in. If they are, then maybe it is time to re-evaluate your building/deployment process.

Furthermore, I'd say that historically, both bash and python should be languages any semi competent developer at some point learns to work with to some degree. I say historically, because it always has been difficult to not encounter it when doing software development in the past... 20 years or so. But with modern environments and deployments it is more feasible as much more is abstracted away in pipeline yaml syntax.