ng

Bash is ugly and rife with pitfalls, but it can be incredibly productive for certain classes of problems if you know what you’re doing. Trying to use Python or Go to whack some external commands together feels very cumbersome to me. For pure programming, “real” languages are absolulely preferable in almost every way, but all of them fail when it comes to running external programs and redirecting their output in a way that doesn’t make me pull my hair out. As a heavy user of both “real” programming languages and shell scripting languages, I’m left craving something that brings the best of both worlds. There are a number of newer shell projects in this vein that are very exciting, like Oil [0], Elvish [1], and Xonsh [2]. I was also hopeful that Neugram [3] would go somewhere, but the project seems to have died out. While many people cite Ba

I love the idea of main-less Go scripts for times where you just want to do something simple, fast. Neugram [1] aimed to make Go a better scripting tool, but unfortunately it seems the project is dead. Although Go+ says its focus is on data science, I think it could fill this niche too. By the way: does Go+ have shebang support? 1: https://github.com/neugram/ng

From the "another" archives, I remember this one, that looks abandoned: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15622894 https://neugram.io/ https://github.com/neugram/ng

It really is an excellent package. Does exactly what it says on the box. I fear I may hit a wall with it eventually. For example, several interesting approaches to https://github.com/neugram/ng/issues/49 would step outside what liner can do. But I'm going to use it as long as I can.

The goal is to add other features that are also useful for scripting. The big one I've worked on so far is syntax for the os/exec package: https://github.com/neugram/ng/blob/master/docs/shell.md#a-sh... Another thing I'm interested in is operator overloading, for compact/pleasant matrix/table types.

Jupyter is a good idea that was only recently suggested to me: https://github.com/neugram/ng/issues/16 Definitely something to try.