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I’m partial to Sindre Sorhus’ execa, this document outlines the differences:
https://github.com/sindresorhus/execa/blob/main/docs/scripts...
Especially because these languages are only one package/install away and not two. I don‘t really get for which audience is targeted here. Usage in JS projects maybe, but then why not write it as npm tasks. ..
I‘m playing around with dotnet-scripts [1] at the moment (C# shop mainly) and this has the same issue imho. The reason why I looked into it was because we have developers not accustomed to bash etc. I still find it silly and would rather use ruby so…
[1] https://github.com/dotnet-script/dotnet-script
Here's an example: https://gitlab.com/vincenttunru/penny/-/blob/main/scripts/bu...
That used to be a shell script. But this I can way more easily read (even after not touching it for a long time), I get autocompletion, and I can use the APIs I'm already familiar with. It's a pretty neat QoL improvement for me specifically.
source 'https://rubygems.org'
Friends, I'm not saying that tools like zx are not good. I do like to write some scripts using js/ts. I believe pythoners prefer https://xon.sh/ . Perl is also attractive and interesting. Fish is friendly.
However, I still believe that posix-shell has its own advantages. The balance among size, code length, and expressiveness. I think the only possible competitors are tcl and perl, maybe lua.
If I want to write better shell scripts I usually run shellcheck and adjust accordingly or if I need facilities not provided by the shell i switch to a full fledged programming language. Ans oh yes, `sh` is present almost on every BSD and Linux box for free so I consider it an important thing to at least be comfortable with.
shellcheck: https://www.shellcheck.net/