Google zx: A tool for writing better scripts

[csantini]

https://google.github.io/zx/?hn=1

[dang]

Related. Others?

Zx 3.0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28195580 - Aug 2021 (163 comments)

[datadrivenangel]

Why would we want to write our bash scripts in Javascript?

[whalesalad → datadrivenangel]

I have infinitely more confidence in my ability to write correct JavaScript

[zem → datadrivenangel]

what we want is to write our bash scripts in not-bash. if your preferred flavour of not-bash is javascript zx will help.

[janderland → datadrivenangel]

Because BASH’s string splitting rules, concurrency tools, and variable scoping are nightmarish.

I’ve written build scripts in BASH, Python, and JavaScript and can definitely say BASH scripts produced the most difficult bugs.

I welcome another option for my glue code.

[ChrisArchitect]

How about don't add a random tag to the url so you don't submit a dupe of the one from earlier - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37392515

[thesuperbigfrog]

Now you can write scripts with zx to compress your scripts with xz (https://tukaani.org/xz/).