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Re. a recommended alternative to quick and dirty bash scripts, do you think golang would do? I've barely dabbled with the language, but its default packaging (a single, static binary) and build system (`go build x`) seem well suited to rapid setup, deployment and testing, which is presumably what you'd want in this scenario.

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Many people use go for such things. I simply don't like go, it's too crude (too C), and the packaging system is. Well, it's not Cargo.

But probably for deploy scripts, go with a static binary (hosted on, let's say your GitLab instance - using the GitLab HTTP API with a token to wget/curl it) is nigh unbeatable in end-to-end development and deployment time.

Aah, makes. I'm not a huge fan of it for similar reasons, but the appeal of a language that's quick, dirty, and relatively acceptable by coworkers is strong.

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