Lately I've had to write a bunch of CLI tools for repetitive tasks that any team member might run. I've been using normal bash for this, and it's great, but it feels a bit cumbersome when you have to do a lot of prompts and progress indicators. What other language would you suggest? GO would seem like a good candidate.

I've seen some nice little CLI tools written in Go, PHP, Python, Rust, etc.
I would advise staying far away from Node, though.

@Jilano node for cli? Shoot me in the face, I'm already falling into a mid life crisis and am pissed if I have to use that bullshit for normal projects

@Jilano @Kimmax, why though?

@Kimmax Don't ask me! I'm at a point where I'd rather do something manually than install 300MB of dependencies to use a little CLI tool. Not everyone seem to be thinking the same, apparently.

PS: There's also a full terminal emulator made with Electron if you need one more reason on your suicide note.

@nitwhiz *points* He told me to.

@Jilano PHP sounds even worse than Node to be fair... But then I'll learn go perhaps

I’ve been doing the same to speed up some process I run at home and been using Python alongside bash,

only just started to learn Python but seems like there’s not much you can’t do with it

@bigOHNOtation Might be true, but there are other things to dislike with Python. Like fucking indentation and funky error messages

We've used Task for our current helper scripts. AFAIK it uses go as well

https://taskfile.dev/

@olof I'll keep that in mind! I've actually been looking for an alternative to makefiles

Python because it's already installed everywhere.

C because it's fast and you can make it as pretty as you want. Cross-platform takes more effort though.

Ruby because it'll make your life easy -- though i have no idea if there's a good gem for console text graphics.

Assembly because you want to torture yourself.

Best bash replacement would probably be Python imho, it's still a scripting language and easy to throw together into a working, useful program, and is usually fast *enough*.