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bash is anti-bicycle: no matter how long you use, it trips you up. https://www.oilshell.org/why.html

Shell is great for one liners to run commands, cancerous for anything more complex. Fabric combines the best of both worlds: shell for one liners, Python for more complex logic https://docs.fabfile.org/en/2.6/getting-started.html#addendu...

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In my experience, it trips me up no more than Python or Fabric do. I have used Fabric a lot too. At another job, we built all of our pipeline tooling in it.

I somehow keep returning to Bash, though. I enjoy it.

Interesting, I used fabric many years ago but thought it had been deprecated. However, it still seems remote focused. Is that a problem for a shell replacement?

As far as I understand, Invoke is pretty much local Fabric. Or rather, Fabric is a networking layer on top of Invoke.

Thanks, looks like it has some similarities with make, however doesn't skip things already built.

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