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Sure all of that is easy, but control flow is a nightmare. How do you deal with cleaning up resources on failures? Idempotency? Traps? It’s a fucking mess
I don't know what to tell you other than skill issue. I don't think shell is a great language or even that good for configuration, but it is pretty simple and the quantity of footguns are similar to JavaScript. My issue with systemd is not the configuration file/language, that bit is pretty cool. My issue is mostly with all of the half-assed auxiliary services they keep pushing and something is not quite right with s…
I don’t disagree about skill issue. I just don’t think you should require immense skill to implement simple control flow without shooting yourself in the foot. It’s much worse than modern JavaScript in my opinion.
I don’t buy the argument about all the auxiliary stuff. You are free to not use it.