alt Hacker News100% this
(Also for anything that needs to work on a shell script or whatever)
I roll my eyes every time some "super secure secret generator" gives me a password with &^%#$ that I need to use on a shell script. Thanks for making my life harder I guess
"oh but you just need to escape them" Yes please be my guest trying to deal with character escape whack-a-mole
It makes me sad that shells, operating systems and languages have basically made zero progress / had zero innovation in the last 60 years.
"Escaping" should be something some graybeard is mumbling about.
Yet here we are in 2026, still having to be on the lookout for a wild /../
Even PowerShell is boilerplate, boilerplate galore.