That's why I use nushell. Very convenient for writing scripts that you can understand. Obviously, it cannot beat Python in terms of prototyping, but at least I don't have to relearn it everytime.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 23 points 5 months ago (14 children)

So the alternative is:

either an obtuse script that works everywhere, or
a legible script that only works on your machine…

[–] shortrounddev@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago (10 children)

I am of the opinion that production software shouldn't be written in shell languages. If it's something which needs to be redistributed, I would write it in python or something

[–] Hexarei@programming.dev 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I tend to write anything for distribution in Rust or something that compiles to a standalone binary. Python does not an easily redistributable application make lol

[–] shortrounddev@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Yeah but then you either need to compile and redistribute binaries for several platforms, or make sure that each target user has rust/cargo installed. Plus some devs don't trust compiled binaries in something like an npm package

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