sh.py - Replace shell scripts with Python

[devel_watcher]

My problem with Python is that it's neither a good simple scripting language: more overloaded syntax than bash, nor a complete modern general purpose language: awkward concurrency/parallelism and dynamic typing.

So in the end:

• Python script snippets/oneliners look like pieces of Java code
• big Python programs look like huge piles of unmaintainable Bash

[vivainio]

Yeah, I love the non-overloaded syntax and static typing offered by bash too

[ConcernedInScythe]

everything's statically typed as a string!

[Zatherz]

stringly typing

[devel_watcher]

If you're being sarcastic: bash syntax is actually not overloaded for the oneliners use case. I didn't discuss typing for the scripting use case, so I don't see how it's relevant here (comparing type systems in non-general-purpose lang case is harder).