Bash

[saladuit]

Hey, I'm a 42 student based in Amsterdam, and I'm loving your website. I've a question regarding the languages.
Will you add bash as a language?
It is very useful for writing acceptance tests, and there is also a cool framework for the language.
https://github.com/bats-core/bats-core

I look forward to hear from you!

[Blind4Basics]

Hi,

there is powershell already

[hobovsky]

Bash is available as one of versions of Shell language.
Just search for Shell kata and check which of them is available in bash, but I believe it's most of them.

[saladuit]

Thank you! I've found it. Stupdid that I couldn't think of that😅. I have a follow up question. Is it possible to add another testing framework to code wars? I was looking at this comparison and it seems that shellspec is the most up to date unit testing framework for bash.

[hobovsky]

You can suggest changes to setup of codewars runner in codewars/runner repository: https://github.com/codewars/runner/issues

[saladuit]

Thank you!

[dcrego]

Hi, even though there are Powershell and Shell language options, the katas for these are not natural problems for shells.
A natural problem for shells are related to OS or networking for instance.
Even SQL uses a diferent kind of engine, why don't we get a different engine for shells as well?

[saladuit]

It's not 100% true, as there are definitely some instances that you need the same set of skills, for example to run some sort of test script.