Billegh

Shell scripts were a mistake.

I understand 1000% but I’m not sure I agree. With the peevishness of C and latent autism of assembly, something compiled or otherwise binary isn’t always simple and straightforward. Sometimes, you have a task that only needs to be done three times, and just replaying the commands is sufficient.

sh, ash, and bash are all kinda dumb. Absolutely. But there are other shells that are significantly better. csh and zsh are both great. ksh has some history on it but is good too. But “shell scripts” don’t have to be in your shell language. The hashbang line will let you make a command file and so long as you can describe the command line you can get most shells to run it. Be that language line noise perl or python or even go.

23 years in and I don’t think that there is better advice here. Listen. Practice. Experiment.

If it’s something you want to get good at, do it as a hobby. Pick projects that you don’t know entirely how to do. Adversity is a better teacher than anything else I’ve run into.

Learn other languages too. I learned more about C from a year of rust than two decades of C.

Don’t tell me how to live! I can make mistakes on my own!

He doesn’t really get better, but later on the circumstances that appear around him make Q more palatable.

Rust. Everything is eventually becoming crabs.

I avoid using mod.rs because then I’ll have a bazillion mod.rs files. It’s what I hate about python modules. I would rather have a thingy.rs and then a thingy folder than many files named the same thing distinct only by their path.