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by calmbonsai 640 days ago
Maybe in the late ‘90s it may have been appropriate to use shell for this (I used Perl for this back then) sort of TUI, but now it’s wrong-headed to use shell for anything aside from bootstrapping into an appropriately dedicated set of TUI libraries such as Python, Ruby, or hell just…anything with proper functions, deps checks, and error-handling.