Since I only ever worked with #Linux/Mac #CLIs: Are there any better concepts out there than #ENV variables, dash dash cli arguments, output piping, output redirects, etc?

Basically: Since I grew up with those concepts in #console I can’t imagine a “better way”, but I am sure this is not the only way. And I’d like to know if we can do better?

Hint: When using something like vlucas/phpdotenv, which populates a superglobal, there's no need of attribution, you can just isolate the return of createX and chain methods.

Intead of:
$env = Dotenv::createImmutable($yourPath);
$env->load(); // $_ENV becomes populated

You can do:
(Dotenv::createImmutable($yourPath))->load(); // $_ENV becomes populated

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