There's always the old piece of wisdom from the Unix jungle: "If you write a complex shellscript, sooner or later you'll wish you wrote it in a real programming language."

I wrote a huge PowerShell script over the past few years. I was like "Ooh, guess this is a resume item if anyone asks me if I know PowerShell." ...around the beginning of the year I rewrote the bloody thing in Python and I have zero regrets. It's no longer a Big Mush of Stuff That Does a Thing. It's got object orientation now. Design patterns. Things in independent units. Shit like that.

[–] Kissaki@programming.dev 4 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I consider python a scripting language too.

[–] lemming741@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

They're all programming languages, they all have their places.

[–] Reptorian@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago

I use it for scripting too. I don't need Python as much as before nowaday.

[–] chicagohuman@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I initially read "UNIX jungle" as "UNIX jingle" and thought I had been really missing out!

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

You have, look up the SuSE songs.