I don’t disagree with this, and honestly I would probably support just using bash like you said if I was in a team where this was suggested.
I think no matter how simple a task is there are always a few things people will eventually want to do with it:
- Reproduce it locally
- Run unit tests, integration tests, smoke tests, whatever tests
- Expand it to do more complex things or make it more dynamic
- Monitor it in tools like Datadog
If you have a whole project already written in Python, Go, Rust, Java, etc, then just writing more code in this project might be simpler, because all the tooling and methodology is already integrated. A script might not be so present for many developers who focus more on the code base, and as such out of sight out of mind sets in, and no one even knows about the script.
There is also the consideration that many people simply dislike bash since it’s an odd language and many feel it’s difficult to do simple things with it.
due to these reasons, although I would agree with making the script, I would also be inclined to have the script temporarily while another solution is being implemented.
Terminal games can be so much fun. I once played CurseOfWar quite a lot. Especially when waiting for compilations or big unit test executions.