That said, it should be a criminal offense to write any tool this large and complex in any language that can’t be used in a powerful step debugger.
TBH I’m increasingly frustrated by the amount of code written in Bash. I kind of hate Python for various reasons. But if 100% of Bash was replaced with Python I think the world would be a better place.
Bash has it's own uglies so I guess it's fair enough to compare two imperfect things, but the problem is these are two different jobs, and python just doesn't do the job bash does, and that job needs doing, so python can't be the replacement.
x = `git --version`
puts(x) #=> "git version 2.43.0"That said, stdout/stderr is such a bloody, inconsistent nightmare. I’m not totally convinced that “chain small binary programs together” is better than “one language with useful libraries”.
Bash is admittedly nice for small things. But it always spirals out of control. And rarely gets ported.
Also my life is primarily Windows and if you want everything to “just work” across mac/linux/win it’s easier to just use Python or sometimes even Rust. I often wish I could easily write and run single-file rust scripts.