- cross-posted to:
- programmer_humor@programming.dev
- cross-posted to:
- programmer_humor@programming.dev
Also, do y’all call main() in the if block or do you just put the code you want to run in the if block?
Also, do y’all call main() in the if block or do you just put the code you want to run in the if block?
They do different things lol
The main functions define entry points and the python example executes the code only if that script was invoked directly
Agreed, when building the wheel in python we can also define entry points like a main function, and run it the same way the compiled C code is run.
These people are comparing the interpreted raw python code to a compiled C binary. My dudes, bash doesn’t have a main function either and no one is fucking complaining.
I don’t complain about Bash’s lack of features because I choose not to write Bash scripts and instead use saner languages.
What other saner languages do you use for scripts, though? All scripting languages share the particular complaint showcased in this post.
Well yeah, but you can at least not suffer as much by using Fish
You mean the “want to be zsh but with a specific config instead of having the liberty to do anything” shell? /s
Jokes aside, regardless of your shell of choice, in companies there are tons of scripts that launch programs, processes and so on, that will generally be coded in bash. Scripts that process files, take the output, send emails… All in a single script. The shell of remote nodes won’t be zsh or fish, it will be bash, and a lot of them won’t even have vim installed, only vi. Like it or not, bash is heavily used in a looot of places.
In many environments we can’t even assume bash, but are stuck with just sh
Bash combines quick, dirty and fast in exchange for readable. Bash is also nice for terminal functions like opening a set of programs and whatever
I don’t see a lot of people building web servers in Bash. I think part of the point is that Python is a scripting language that likes to cosplay as a GPL.