> If you treat shell as a DSL for files and streams, nothing can beat it. My cursory glance at this lib (and what I picked up from other comments) suggests tha

> If you treat shell as a DSL for files and streams, nothing can beat it. My cursory glance at this lib (and what I picked up from other comments) suggests that it's based on exactly this thought: Take the tiny subset of shell syntax that makes it awesome and reimplement it as an internal DSL in a host language that has sane control flow etc.