When to Reach for Another Language

Bash is at its best gluing programs, files and folders together on any Linux server or Mac; when a script needs real data handling, grows into many files of logic or has to run for Windows users, Python, JavaScript or C# fits better, and a bash script can hand the hard part to a program in one of them.

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Cheat sheet for the lesson When to Reach for Another Language: Bash is at its best gluing programs, files and folders together on any Linux server or Mac; when a script needs real data handling, grows into many files of logic or has to run for Windows users, Python, JavaScript or C# fits better…
Category
Bash
Level
Journeyman
Tags
bash, linux, node-js, posix, python, scripting-language, unix