Habitat — A new approach to automation

Re:Habitat — A new approach to automation by davexunit on Tuesday June 14, 2016 @01:03PM (#11903417)

But all of the package recipes are just Bash scripts, which I think is just terrible, btw. Using a real programming language would have been a much better choice.

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Re:Habitat — A new approach to automation by zeveb on Tuesday June 14, 2016 @04:49PM (#11905200)

> Using a real programming language would have been a much better choice.

The problem is that everyone disagrees on what a tolerable real programming language is. Some refuse to use Python; others Ruby; others Scheme; others Lisp.

At least every can tolerate shell more or less.

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Re:Habitat — A new approach to automation by holoway on Tuesday June 14, 2016 @01:14PM (#11903514)

We struggled with this! I think we found the right balance, but time will tell.

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