When I said I'd even take lua over python, that's only if I was forced to pick a high level language for a shell. Lua is really easy to conjure up higher level

When I said I'd even take lua over python, that's only if I was forced to pick a high level language for a shell. Lua is really easy to conjure up higher level algos, like javascript can. But I'm not convinced any high level language is a viable replacement for bash. It would have to be more functional than bash whilst still having good support for standard unix tools. One very interesting idea I found was a macro library for racket that turns s-expressions from deeply nested structures into a much flatter representation. Lisp might be a good option with toy with because of flexibility like that. https://www.reddit.com/r/Racket/comments/mands9/fluent_unix_style_pipes_and_lambda_shorthand_to/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Racket/comments/mands9/fluent_unix_...