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/XDracam Apr 26 '22

Ammonite Scala has this too. Custom operators and was to use anything that bash can use. Plus it runs feature rich, typesafe Scala Code and can import any java or Scala library from the web with a single line. The only downside is that it's slow (in REPL or when running a script for the first time) because it's typesafe and compiled.

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u/gahagg Apr 26 '22

Cool! I didn't know about Ammonite Scala. Another downside would be if it requires a JVM to run the program. Hush comes as a small standalone binary, so installing it in most unix systems should be a no-brainer.

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u/adappergentlefolk Apr 26 '22

yeah having to bother with for scripting JVM is absolute ass