My #1 rule for the teams I lead is “consistency”. So it may fall back to that. The standard where you work is to use a certain way of doing things so everyone becomes skilled at the same thing.

I have the same rule, but I always let a little bash slide here and there.

Very different. This means default ignore all errors and continue to the next line. You’d have to explicitly catch every line in most(all?) other languages.

This Lemmy thread isn’t representative of the real world. I’ve been a dev for 40 years. You use what works. Bash is a fantastic scripting tool.

What gave you the impression that this was just for development? Bash is widely used in production environments for scripting all over enterprises. The people you work with just don’t have much experience at lots of shops I would think.

It’s just not wise to write an entire system in bash. Just simple little tasks to do quick things. Yes, in production. The devops world runs on bash scripts.