I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
For example, I have a few scripts that fetch changes and start/manage features based on Jira ticket numbers.
There may well be a VSCode plugin for that, and a Jetbrains plugin, and a Sublime plugin, etc., etc., but I don't need to learn a new language to make them. I can just copy my script and it'll work, and it's infinitely hackable because it's my own script.
For example, I have a few scripts that fetch changes and start/manage features based on Jira ticket numbers.
There may well be a VSCode plugin for that, and a Jetbrains plugin, and a Sublime plugin, etc., etc., but I don't need to learn a new language to make them. I can just copy my script and it'll work, and it's infinitely hackable because it's my own script.
That actually sounds awesome Ben!
I'm all for hacking your own scripts and making your life easier.
You should share some of those ideas here on dev.to 🤟