alt Hacker NewsThank you, but... why not just write in Bash, or the shell you prefer? Why learn a yet another opinionated wrapper?
Yes, Bash or any shell is a very complex and utterly environment dependent language to approach with all due care for security and compatibility, yet hence the lack of wrapper that may not even be aware of these crucial cases at all.
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If you don't want to use it, don't use it
bash is really painful to use for anything beyond the most rudimentary logic. Bourne and Mashey were terrible language designers. (By contrast, Thompson's V6 shell is very elegant, if limited.)
That said, this should just be a shell itself and not something that generates into other shell dialects. Otherwise, why not use Ruby or something like it that has actual expressive power?
Your argument is down to the weights.
There are other communities where movement in the language came from outside tooling that built extensions on top of the language, such as Sass or TypeScript.