I like to write my projects in JavaScript. Since I don’t have time to juggle between all of them, it’s inevitable that they’re abandoned after a while and left as they were last touched for eternity. I bet this story feels familiar.
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I came across situations in the past where I needed to modify a pipe just slightly. I immediately knew how to do it imperatively but could not develop a feasible chain of *nix utilities in a reasonable time.
Here’s where my knowledge of a scripting language comes in handy.
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I work with some projects that can be only used with specific versions of node/python and it’s not feasible to simply dockerize them. Every time I switch between these projects I’d need to reinstall different versions of node/python. That would be plain silly… BUT there’s a better way.
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