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madeofpalk on July 1, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Fly.js: New generation build system

> Who said anything about bash scripts? There are other shell scripts in the sea. Also, shell scripting is much more universal[...]

I guess it depends a lot on your infra, but wouldn't (ba)sh be the most universal shell? so if shell = bash, then "shell script" = "bash script"

webromance on July 2, 2015 [–]

It would. I use fish shell here, yet I prefer writing my build tasks with plain JavaScript. Fly seems to be a thin abstraction to accomplish the same. Now, the most striking advantage is support for generators/co-routine style for async stuff and also promises right from the get go.

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