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?

  • chaospatterns@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    1 month ago

    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.

    • Fushuan [he/him]@lemm.ee
      3·
      1 month ago

      What other saner languages do you use for scripts, though? All scripting languages share the particular complaint showcased in this post.

        • Fushuan [he/him]@lemm.ee
          3·
          1 month ago

          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.

    • Caveman@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 month ago

      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