I started using Go for exactly this reason. It was something that felt slightly too advanced to write in shell, and figured I'd try Go (command line tool). I ca

I started using Go for exactly this reason. It was something that felt slightly too advanced to write in shell, and figured I'd try Go (command line tool). I can't say I'm too much of a fan of the language, but the things it does well (fast compile times, simple portable binaries) it does very well.