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I use zsh daily but type `xonsh` any time I do something in the shell that would normally require a google.

“Uh ok so I have this JSON file. When I pipe this to `jq` I forget: to pivot an array of objects to an object keyed by array[x].id is it like `to_entries` then chain it to `map`? Uhh let’s look at the docs...”

However in Python I can write that function at the speed of thought. It may be a couple more lines of code but I’m also 100% confident in the output.

Like I understand some people can legitimately program in bash [0]. But I just can’t bring myself to practice. Why would anyone inflict this language on themselves?

[0] https://github.com/docker-library/python/blob/master/update....

parent austinpray 8 years ago

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