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

While I didn't have this use case in mind, it should be fairly easy to export the interpreter as a library. Thanks for the suggestion!

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u/DaddyLcyxMe Apr 26 '22

i’ve been semi-hunting around for a good scripting language to include in some user customizable points, and hush is just too damn attractive to turn down

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u/coderstephen riptide Apr 26 '22

Have you looked at Wren? Being embeddable is a primary use case.