On: Something about functions in Bash (2017)

[yAnonymous]

>In part because the more bash a dev knows the more effective they are at life in general

At some point, using bash isn't effective anymore. It's great and all, but an important skill is knowing when to use it and when not to.

[amelius → yAnonymous]

Totally agree. I'm using bash only for scripts that are at most (say) 10 lines long. More complicated than that, and I'm off to a real programming language.