[HN Gopher] Configuring My Machines with Bashtard
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       Configuring My Machines with Bashtard
        
       Author : tyil
       Score  : 15 points
       Date   : 2022-05-08 11:55 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | dijit wrote:
       | This is so awful. I hope nobody ever actually uses it seriously.
       | 
       | As a person who has less hate than most people about bash; there
       | are better options.
       | 
       | I understand the frustration with ansible, with DSLs in general
       | and the slow creep they all take to becoming proper languages
       | with loops and conditionals- only with worse semantics than real
       | languages.
       | 
       | But this isn't the way.
        
         | jrm4 wrote:
         | Genuine question, why not? The Bash shell is one of those
         | things that people love to hate on, and yet -- it's still here.
         | What makes this approach inferior?
        
       | patrck wrote:
       | Seems like it should use m4 instead of sed/awk for the
       | templating. And `make` for the dependencies that will arise, eg.
       | HUP sshd after config change.
        
       | YATA2 wrote:
       | That name is problematic as it's too close to an abelist slur.
       | You should change it to something like Bashfig, Bashful, etc. to
       | be more inclusive.
        
         | boardwaalk wrote:
         | Oh, come on. It's a lot, lot closer to bastard than retard or
         | tard. At some point people have to own their own
         | misperceptions.
        
         | dijit wrote:
         | As an actual living bastard, I endorse the name.
         | 
         | So. There.
        
           | thematrixturtle wrote:
           | I think GP is referring to the politically incorrect "-tard"
           | part of the name.
        
           | RockRobotRock wrote:
           | I'm all for funny names, but giving your project a needlessly
           | inflammatory name, to me signals that the author doesn't have
           | an interest in working with the greater open-source community
           | to develop it further or adopt it.
        
       | VWWHFSfQ wrote:
       | If it had a better name I might actually look into it.
        
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       | geocrasher wrote:
       | Neat concept, cringe inducing name.
       | 
       | Could have called it "Baby Got Bash"
        
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