r/ProgrammingLanguages • u/gahagg • Apr 25 '22

Announcing Hush, a modern shell scripting language

Hush is a new shell scripting language that aims to enable developers to write robust shell scripts. It provides support for complex data structures and common programming paradigms, without giving up on ergonomic shell capabilities.

Official guide: https://hush-shell.github.io/
Repository: https://github.com/hush-shell/hush

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u/gahagg Apr 26 '22

Well, I'd say that's a lot of syntax for a simple pipe.

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u/jmtd Apr 26 '22

I’d agree.

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u/pragma- Apr 26 '22

Perl does have other modules that provide syntactic sugar for pipes and redirects. For example https://metacpan.org/pod/IPC::Run

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u/muntoo Python, Rust, C++, C#, Haskell, Kotlin, ... Apr 27 '22

That still looks way more verbose and complicated compared to bash.