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Re:Scripting with Go: A Modest Proposal by pdimitar on Sunday August 20, 2023 @04:05PM (#37202498)
Another commenter beat me to it but still: sh / bash / zsh are quite fine up until certain complexity (say 500 lines), after which adding even a single small feature becomes a huge drag. We're talking hours for something that would take me 10 minutes in Golang and 15 in Rust.
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Re:Scripting with Go: A Modest Proposal by sgarland on Sunday August 20, 2023 @07:12PM (#37203837)
I can actually agree with this take. Most of the opinions I've seen in this vein take some absurdly small limit, like 5 lines. 500, though? Yeah. My team rewrote a ProxySQL handler in Python because the bash version had gotten out of hand, and there were only a handful of people who could understand what it was doing. It passed 100% of spellcheck tests, and was as modular as it could possibly be, but modifying it was still an exercise in pain.
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Re:Scripting with Go: A Modest Proposal by ruraljuror on Sunday August 20, 2023 @08:10PM (#37204157)
> It passed 100% of spellcheck tests

Just like your post does! :)

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Re:Scripting with Go: A Modest Proposal by sgarland on Sunday August 20, 2023 @09:41PM (#37204595)
Ugh… Safari being overly helpful.
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