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janet-sh limits according to ianthehenry's book chapter
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| > but Bash still has a lot to recommend it: there’s no equivalent of trap EXIT in Janet, nor is there an analog of the extremely-useful cp foo.bar{,.bup} expansion shorthand. It’s a lot more verbose to set and reference environment variables in Janet, and there’s no ~/foo or ~user/foo shorthand for specifying home directories. You can’t spawn background jobs at all, and Janet has no job control facilities. | |
| * there’s no equivalent of `trap EXIT` in Janet | |
| * there is no analog of the extremely-useful `cp foo.bar{,.bup}` expansion shorthand | |
| * It’s a lot more verbose to set and reference environment variables in Janet | |
| * there’s no `~/foo` or `~user/foo` shorthand for specifying home directories | |
| * You can’t spawn background jobs at all | |
| * Janet has no job control facilities |
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