I don’t think I can overstate how important learning to be really fast at bash coding. There is no language that objectively can be written in more quickly. It is a highly contextual language, a dense language, which makes it ugly and messy, but you can code faster in bash that just about anything else (except maybe Perl, which is why Perl almost displaced bash). Plus there’s a good chance learning bash well will provide added value for all your terminal computing tasks.
I’m just coming off a marathon coding session having implemented stuff
that would have taken me at least four times as long to put together in
Python, Perl, or Go even when I was at my peek in those languages. Stuff
that needs curl and jq and data transformation is particularly easy
to do in bash and gives you a solid feeling that you are actually using
the protocols instead of burying them under layers of library
abstraction.
Slow, inexperienced, people will continue to throw shit at bash for how ugly it is. It is ugly. But I love ugly in this sense. Ugly means fast. While they are still trying to figure stuff out I’ll be over here finishing MVPs that I can use and pitch for ideas for larger projects. That is what rapid applications development is all about. It’s what JavaScript script kiddies crave as well. It’s the reason that TypeScript is a tumorous growth full of cancer cells that don’t really know what they are suppose to be. Bash knows it’s king. It knows you have to use it to use Linux. It knows people who treat it nicely will get the absolute most out of their computers for the least amount of effort. This is the way.