Installing node uses some 60MB (according to zypper on my current desktop). I'd rather have something small and possibly that consists of a single executable.
As a bonus, both support the vast and extensive NPM package repository
That's not necessarily a feature :) Package repos are great if you are a developer (I am one) working primarily with that language, but are frustrating if you just want to run things.
Why aren’t python and bash be available in all your systems?
Among others, I run stuff on alpine and openwrt.
I don't need to run these scripts everywhere (strictly speaking, I don't need the homlab at all), but I was wondering if there's something that I can adopt as a default goto solution without having to worry about how each system is packaged/configured.
As for python, I doubt the full version would fit in my router plus as said I don't want to deal with libraries/virtualenvs/... and (in the future) with which distro comes with python3 vs pyton4 (2 vs 3 was enough). Openwrt does have smaller python packages, but then I would be using different implementations on different systems: again something I'd rather not deal with.
As for perl, it would be small enough, but I find it a bit archaic/esoteric (prejudice, I know), plus again I don't want to deal with how every distro decides to package the different things (eg. openwrt has some 40+ packages for perl - if I were doing serious development that would be ok, but I don't want to worry about that for just some scripts).
I think I can sense your love/hate relationship with nixos from here :) you are not alone
I thought you could still go Centos Stream 9?
Anyway, I'm pretty sure almalinux-deploy allows migration from Centos Stream 8... it's your second chance to be done with fickle management decisions from RedHat/IBM: don't miss it this time :)
What is that you care to preserve? Can't you just register a new account and kill the old one? (genuinely curious)
Isn't the purpose getting views on youtube?
IDK about OP, but I would really love a CAPTCHA of sorts to screen all the spam/scam calls
Today will be another productive day!
Never used powershell (thanks heavens, I've not touched windows since windows 7). Is it similar to nushell?
Well, it's not like by learning fish you'll automatically forget bash :) but I do agree that you should learn bash first, then plain sh and only after those go explore other shells.
I love how "radical shells" sounds! :)
Powershell does this on Windows. May also work on Linux?
Yes: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/install/installing-powershell-on-linux
Should you choose to install it, it will bring the total of people running powershell on linux to one :)
(I'm kidding, of course, more or less)
nim is great, but it is >200mb (plus AFAIK it is compiled... does it also have an interpreter?)