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Re:Tools for 2025 by Melkor333 on Monday February 03, 2025 @01:52AM (#42915663)
> The one area where I've stopped using bash/shell is in complex shell scripts which I'm now writing in TypeScript and executing with Bun by using: #! /usr/bin/env bun

(blog author here) This is exactly what's wrong with bash (and zsh). It should NOT be hard to write a bit more complex scripts. But it's so ingrained into our heads that shell is "too hard" that people use ts/js/python/etc. And usually the UX to writing "glue code" is much worse than with a good shell like Ysh.

Re:Tools for 2025 by CRConrad on Monday February 03, 2025 @01:10PM (#42921036)
> But it's so ingrained into our heads that shell is "too hard" that people...

...That people apparently don't even try to learn bash. It isn't really all that hard.