[kiitos]

> Previously .. I didn't want to take the time to spin up on the trivia for a new language or platform ... Now? I'll happily use things like Go and Bash and AppleScript and jq and ffmpeg

It's pretty wild that you're characterizing the understanding of a language and its details as "trivia" that you don't need to "take the time to spin up on" before you write programs in that language.

I mean, I get this perspective, but it's the position of a product manager, not a software engineer...

[simonw]

I stand by what I said. Knowing how to eg loop through every file in the current directory in Bash is trivia.

That's not to say it's trivial, or to disparage that knowledge. But it's not at the same level as understanding how eg Unix processes can be piped together.

If I'm interviewing a candidate and they can't remember the syntax for a Bash loop, I don't care. If they can't explain what happens when you pipe output from one process to another (at least at a high level), that's a problem.