Bash has horrific syntax but a huge amount of coding time is wasted because of unbalanced brackets/braces and forgotten end of line statements that result in un

Bash has horrific syntax but a huge amount of coding time is wasted because of unbalanced brackets/braces and forgotten end of line statements that result in unhelpful and confusing error messages so I like things that reduce this. Bash also has the quirk where variable assignments are of the form "var=1" but their usage is "$var" which always trips me up. I just like syntax that is easy to get right first time and is copy/paste friendly.