delta_p_delta_x on Moreshell tricks: first class lists, jq, and the es shell

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I was about to comment with my usual 'why not PowerShell', but it seems the author acknowledges this anyway at the end:

I’ll quote Rich’s sh (POSIX shell) tricks to end this:

I am a strong believer that Bourne-derived languages are extremely bad, on the same order of badness as Perl, for programming, and consider programming sh for any purpose other than as a super-portable, lowest-common-denominator platform for build or bootstrap scripts and the like, as an extremely misguided endeavor

packetlost 1y

This is why I use Plan9's rc shell for a lot of my scripting needs. It's dramatically nicer to write but even more nice to read.

alurmOP1y

Yeah, PowerShell and nushell are pretty cool, I hope they gain more adoption.

stouset 1y

I keep intending to give nushell a serious try, but I'm too set in my ways :(

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