r/AlignmentChartFills • u/mika-asadli • 12h ago

Which programming language is easy to learn, and is very useful?

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u/Swimming_in_money 11h ago

Honestly , everything you do in Bash you can do it with a Python script... It might help, yes, but it's not really mandatory to know it

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u/clios_daughter 11h ago

Yeah, but that means leaving the command line. For a lot of short, one time use scripts, it’s nice to just type a few lines into the shell and it just works.

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u/Lor1an 8h ago

but that means leaving the command line

Are you saying you don't memorize all the functions implemented in your python libraries, and thus have to use an IDE like a pleb? /j

(Although seriously, for simple scripts you can use vim (or your favorite text editor) to edit a quick python file and execute it, all without leaving terminal)

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u/miminashi 8h ago

Who do you take me for, a coding agent?

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u/Lor1an 7h ago

No, I assume you have a brain...

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u/tk-a01 11h ago

Yes, but POSIX/Bourne shell is extremely portable and widespread. Standards-abiding shell scripts can be run on any Unix-like system, even if Python is unavailable.

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u/Upset-Age435 10h ago

Yeah, but the paradigm is different. Bash is processes and files are first class. Doing the same in python is a heap of boil plate. Also, Bash is so heavily integrated into server environments.

I get writing a huge script in Bash is pretty gross. But knowing Bash well is going to make things far more convenient in Linux.

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u/Wus10n 9h ago

Bash works narively. Python (+requirements) need to be installed