Agreed that Bash is (relatively) fine, although error prone. My comment was about POSIX shell, which has none of the features (arrays, [[ instead of [, etc.) that make programming tolerable in Bash.
One drawback is that if you want your Bash script to work on macOS, you need to restrict yourself to features that exist on version 3.2 (from 2006) because that's the latest version that will ever be included on macOS by default.
> If I could take my currently running Python code and produce some artifact that would run with nothing other than the python binary I think we'd be in a much better place.
One drawback is that if you want your Bash script to work on macOS, you need to restrict yourself to features that exist on version 3.2 (from 2006) because that's the latest version that will ever be included on macOS by default.
> If I could take my currently running Python code and produce some artifact that would run with nothing other than the python binary I think we'd be in a much better place.
See my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23338316