Porting Tailscale to Plan 9

I unironically wish there was an enterprise version of Plan 9. I've been writing most of my scripts in `rc` (something my coworkers put up with because we use nix and I can pull it in automatically with dirnev) and it has been great.

I would worry less about other people being able to run rc scripts and more about them being able to read/edit them.

they're routinely very short, and the only non-obvious syntax for someone familiar with a C-like language is the ~ command and redirecting to stderr. They're pretty much always easier to read (and write) than bash scripts in general because of how little weird/surprising syntax there is. Not being a derivative of ALGOL has its perks.

Most scripts are write-once:read-never, especially if you actually implement -h/--help

> Most scripts are write-once:read-never, especially if you actually implement -h/--help

I guess the answer is always “it depends”, but that generally has never been my experience with most things. Are you over-engineering the shit out of every script to the degree the script itself is a Turing complete machine and with enough —-help flags anything is possible? Most 40+ year old Unix tools with a thousand flags have their limits and you have to script around them to achieve things you want.

In my experience, eventually a business need will arise that require you to change a script. Are your coworkers comfortable changing these scripts or are you in the mind set of “that’s a simple enough change, I’ll do it”