When I first created Judo, I envisioned some sort of a standard library as a sibling project, sort of an "executable rosetta stone" for Unix, where you could declaratively say things like "ensure this user exists", "ensure this package is installed".
In practice I found out it's fairly easy to just write your scripts to be idempotent. It was the secret "2. and do not overcomplicate things" step that most initially simple software seems to gradually forget about.
When I first created Judo, I envisioned some sort of a standard library as a sibling project, sort of an "executable rosetta stone" for Unix, where you could declaratively say things like "ensure this user exists", "ensure this package is installed".
In practice I found out it's fairly easy to just write your scripts to be idempotent. It was the secret "2. and do not overcomplicate things" step that most initially simple software seems to gradually forget about.