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Re:Launch HN: Onu (YC W23) – Turn scripts into internal tool... by freedomben on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @02:50PM (#36142320)
Not GP, but without supporting bash scripts the tool isn't very useful to us
Re:Launch HN: Onu (YC W23) – Turn scripts into internal tool... by hunter2_ on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @03:21PM (#36142801)
At the risk of an extreme facepalm moment given the {obvious danger, code smell, worst practice, etc.} I still feel compelled to ask: don't the languages already supported offer an execution gateway (like the backtick operator or shell_exec() in php) such that an extremely lightweight wrapper would allow this to run your bash scripts?
Re:Launch HN: Onu (YC W23) – Turn scripts into internal tool... by PetahNZ on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @03:53PM (#36143312)
Not to mention most of my bash scripts are just wrappers around calling some other binary executables
Re:Launch HN: Onu (YC W23) – Turn scripts into internal tool... by xeromal on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @04:14PM (#36143654)
100% but I assume they are requesting first-class support.
Re:Launch HN: Onu (YC W23) – Turn scripts into internal tool... by slumos on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @08:32PM (#36146315)
Well, from the description I gathered the service was going to “TURN (existing) scripts INTO internal tools”. Not “provide a front-end to a framework where you write brand new code to integrate with your business logic”… The first mode seems to add a relatively large amount of value for relatively low effort given the management scripts that already exist. The second seems more like a framework only useful for processes you spend the effort to migrate. Was hoping to see a Rundeck competitor but got an Internal competitor instead?
Re:Launch HN: Onu (YC W23) – Turn scripts into internal tool... by mkoryak on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @05:09PM (#36144367)
People who write bash scripts well and people who write nodejs scripts are likely different groups that will want very different things from this service.
Re:Launch HN: Onu (YC W23) – Turn scripts into internal tool... by Too on Thursday June 01, 2023 @12:08AM (#36147478)
If that’s all you want you might as well use Jenkins or a myriad of other similar tools. It’s free and self hosted.