Release blog post

Darklang CLI is a better replacement for bash scripts. I say AI tools that generated bash scripts, but the bash scripts had a few problems:

• bash is super hard to read, using weird variable names. While lots of us can read and write bash scripts, since there are few experts, it’s not a great language when we have to read the code generated by an AI
• lack of a package manager means the generated code has to use cli tools, which each have different interfaces, and may not be installed
  • different versions of the tools might be installed with subtly different behaviour (esp gnu vs bsd)
  • Or it generates low-level code eg using curl
• lack of real types and functions (which are a mess in bash) contributes to these problems

We felt that darklang could be used as a better language for AI-generated scripts, because:

• static types help ensure correctness
• immutable values (combined with static types) make code easier to understand and verify
• built-in package manager
  • without an npm install step
  • versioned immutable functions and packages
• easy to take a script and move it to the cloud