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Re:The temptation of writing shell scripts, illustrated by d0mine on Sunday April 24, 2022 @07:54AM (#31143193)
There are legitimate issues but in most cases I encountered, the complaints are of the kind: "it doesn't behave exactly like solution from another language that I happened to learn first and therefore Python sucks.

What is the dependency management solution for bash that it so much better than anything in Python?

Re:The temptation of writing shell scripts, illustrated by matsemann on Sunday April 24, 2022 @10:05AM (#31144111)
Probably none. So the problem is really that so many brittle scripts get passed around, instead of either making it selfcontained on containerized.