Question to the Linux-Users on here.
What scripting languages do you know ?.

I want to build a cli-tool, which will be configurated by code, so I want to chose a language, that is relatively wide spread, or easy to learn.

@Haxk20 Pretty much. I don't get the point in doing a "minimalistic" CLI program that requires JS.

Python 🐍 ftw

@Jilano
Well, my tool will need object-structures.
And obviously, nodejs also came to my mind since its easy, OOP and not that uncommon.

I might be able to work around that in bash, using jshon, but that could be pretty messy.

Python, php, bash, the list goes on.

@metamourge Python sounds ideal for you, it's widely used for making CLI tools and supports objects and stuff. It's also extremely widespread and extremely easy to learn.

I write my cli tools in PHP :)

I know exactly as much Haskell as I need in order to make xmonad do what I need it to. If your tool is awesome enough you can script it in whatever you want; people will probably accept the learning curve.

But you'd probably save untold thousands of hours for us if you went with bash/python!

Python has a module to set arguments to the script call and creates a -h option automatically. Of course you can implement your own solution but the module works great.

I do prefer and recommend Python

OK, so I would write it in Python, but there is one problem.
Can I do imports relative to a modules location, like in NodeJS, instead of relative to the file, you are executing.

@metamourge u mean imports of libraries ? Once installed in your env or venv I shouldn’t be a problem

Classic
Import argparse
Or
From this import that

@kLue
No, not like importing from your Python-Env.
Just importing a file from somewhere in the filesystem.

If I want to do that, the import-paths usually have to be relative to the path of the file you executed.

Like if the executed file is in
~/py/start.py
The import paths of this file and all files it imports have to be relative to ~/py/

But I want the import-paths to be relative to the file that contains them.

@metamourge
🤔 🤔 🤔sorry no idea if that’s possible