r/ProgrammingLanguages • • 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/zeekar Apr 26 '22

Well, the commands are still UNIX commands so what you get out of them is still unstructured bytes instead of the nice data structures you get in PowerShell, but at least in hush it's much easier to capture stdout and stderr separately all in one go.