My main qualms with bash as a scripting language are that its syntax is not only kind of bonkers (no judgement, I know it's an old tool) but also just crazily u

My main qualms with bash as a scripting language are that its syntax is not only kind of bonkers (no judgement, I know it's an old tool) but also just crazily unsafe. I link to a few high-profile things whenever people ask me why my mantra is "the time to switch your script from bash to python is when you want to delete things". >rm -rf /usr /lib/nvidia-current/xorg/xorg https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned/commit/a047be85247755cdbe0acce6f1dafc8beb84f2ac#diff-043df5bdbf6639d7a77e1d44c5226fd7371e5259a1e4df3a0dd5d64c30dca44fL351 https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned/commi... >rm -rf "$STEAMROOT/"* https://github.com/valvesoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671 https://github.com/valvesoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671 It's just too easy to shoot your foot.