[shameless] > Do I need to manipulate rich data structures like hash-maps or nested lists? That sort of thing tends to stretch the capabilities of Bash > If I

[shameless] > Do I need to manipulate rich data structures like hash-maps or nested lists? That sort of thing tends to stretch the capabilities of Bash > If I'm gluing executable scripts and binaries, using bash is often superior to a scripting language The two points above resonate with my view that there is a missing piece. On one hand we have bash which is optimized for being the glue (second point). On the other hand we have Ruby, Python, Perl, Go, etc which are good for first point. What I think is missing is newer, more powerful shell, which supports both use cases and more. I'm working on it: https://github.com/ilyash/ngs https://github.com/ilyash/ngs Please note that I'm not the only one that thinks there is room for more powerful shells. See the readme for links to other projects.