Re:The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers (2015)
by nunez on Thursday May 17, 2018 @12:04AM
(#17088635)
Have you SEEN how Bash array indexing works? It’s not exactly user friendly. Same with Bash hashtables (which I don’t think are really hashtables).
I love Bash and use it way more often than I should, but Bash is not a friendly language. Mocking and stubbing functions is really hard to do, which makes tests awkward, even with BATS. And you need to watch the file descriptor to which text is sent to avoid things get globes unexpectedly. And you need to properly scope your vars to avoid unexpected collisions. And everything regarding sourcing and importing dependencies. Etc.
I love Bash and use it way more often than I should, but Bash is not a friendly language. Mocking and stubbing functions is really hard to do, which makes tests awkward, even with BATS. And you need to watch the file descriptor to which text is sent to avoid things get globes unexpectedly. And you need to properly scope your vars to avoid unexpected collisions. And everything regarding sourcing and importing dependencies. Etc.