

Haven’t looked at hexbears in months, but this feels like the kind of stuff that crowd would be spouting unironically.
There’s a saying out there about the relationship between perfect and good, but in this case, it’s a matter of lesser evils. In either case, going in the wrong direction won’t bring us closer to where we want to be.







If you’re writing a script that’s more than 269 lines long, you shouldn’t be using Bash.
Jokes aside, the point isn’t the lines of code. It’s complexity. Higher level languages can reduce complexity with tasks by having better tools for more complex logic. What could be one line of code in Python can be dozens in Bash (or a long, convoluted pipeline consisting of
awkandsed, which I usually just glaze over at that point). Using other languages means better access to dev tools, like tools for testing, linting, and formatting the scripts.While I’m not really a fan of hostility, it annoys me a lot when I see these massive Bash scripts at work. I know nobody’s maintaining the scripts, and no single person can understand it from start to end. When it inevitably starts to fail, debugging them is a nightmare, and trying to add to it ends up with constantly looking up the syntax specific commands/programs want. Using a higher level language at least makes the scripts more maintainable later on.