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Happy to have left the mess that is grep, awk, bash, zsh, fish, etc. behind and just use Python for scripting.


Python has it's own problems. Not the least of which being it being hundreds of times slower than coreutils.

I'll take learning Shell and a handful of coreutils, over praying the sysadmin has successfully navigated/allowed me to navigate all the Python footguns.

Also, good luck doing anything embedded where space is at a premium. Not all base systems have/need Python. Everything needs a shell, however.


Hehe, wasn’t the Python 2 to 3 incompatibility debacle a thousand times worse than [fe]grep? Python2 is still lingering in places even after Python 2 was removed.


I like hand saws and I like circular saws/Skil-saws. I use them for different things.




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