bish

I'm never sure when these plugs become too much, but... I created a language called bish that allows you to write your shell scripts in a sane and comfortable syntax. No more remembering which one of those conditionals to use! Bish compiles to bash, so you also get to keep all of the portability that comes with bash scripts. I haven't had much time to work on it recently, and it's still missing some features, but it's ready to use now: https://github.com/tdenniston/bish

Shameless plug for my language "bish" (compiles to bash) which aims to solve many of these annoyances with shell scripting: https://github.com/tdenniston/bish

I see a lot of discussion on the awkwardness and idiosyncrasies of shells like bash.... So this is a great time for a shameless plug! Last week I released a language called 'bish' (https://github.com/tdenniston/bish) which compiles to bash, but has none of the same syntactical weirdness. So the idea is: write and maintain your script in bish, but compile to bash and ship the bash version. Here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9166386) is the previous discussion from last week.

This is quite apropos, as just last week I released a little language called 'bish' designed to overcome exactly this issue. It compiles to bash for portability, but has more modern and familiar syntax. See https://github.com/tdenniston/bish for the repo and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9166386 for some previous discussion. The language is still brand new and under active development. It's not stable yet.