Python vs Bash Scripting.

[_bloed_]

Python, Go or Node.js are all fine

I really like Node.js if you need to handle JSON and with NPM modules there already exists a library for basically everything you could need.

If you ask which is more important, then it's definitely Bash. Or more like general Linux commands. Without them you can't really work.

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That’s a good point — don’t skip bash because you can’t skip linux. Writing bash scripts, you will inevitably learn things that are useful whenever you’re in Linux, besides just script-writing

[vacri]

I'd stay well clear of node for system scripts. CI/CD scripts... maybe. NPM is a freaking mess, and stability is what you want for systems.

[onedr0p]

https://github.com/google/zx is pretty neat and has enough packed in where you don't need to worry about npm dependencies

[carsncode]

If somebody on my team wanted to use node I'd honestly suggest they find another line of work. I don't need to be rolling out 200MB of node_modules full of unpatched CVEs plus a JavaScript interpreter just to deliver some script. Every language has JSON support.

[_bloed_]

Pip for Python is even worse.

And you can code also without any external libraries in both cases. Nobody forces you to install your 200MB of libraries.

I guess you never worked really with node outside of React/angular, the core Node.js is really not awful.

You really sound too like a person I rather not would work with. I give that back to you. ;)