tulip

> trans Oh, if that's the case: https://github.com/tulip-lang/tulip > I need your help! Especially if you are queer/trans, disabled, a woman, and/or a person of color, and in that case especially if you think you don't know anything about compilers. So there are niche languages for everyone. I had hoped Tulip would go somewhere, but after so long I lost interest.

Well, there are some other as well. TCL works nice as a shell and is very elegant as a programming language. The famous equivalence of code and data is visible here, while still syntactically looking pretty normal. Scheme (via https://scsh.net/about/about.html) is also worth looking into. S-exp based syntax looks strange at first, but you get used to it rather quickly. Emacs Eshell is very similar to xonsh, but with Emacs Lisp instead of Python. On Windows PowerShell is also a choice. It's both a shell and a sane, procedural programming language, with full access to dotNET. Tulip (https://github.com/tulip-lang/tulip) express goals are to be good for both shell work and programming. On the other hand, jq (https://stedolan.github.io/jq/) is just a DSL, but it turns out it's ok for doing more advanced work if you're familiar with functional

OK interesting, it actually appears to be written in RPython, not full Python: https://github.com/jneen/tulip/blob/master/tulip/libedit.py (RPython is the "static" subset of Python used to bootstrap PyPy)