Next Generation Shell was born exactly out of the pain of using bash and Python. I'm the author and I felt the same way. > shelling out when needed is not plea

Next Generation Shell was born exactly out of the pain of using bash and Python. I'm the author and I felt the same way. > shelling out when needed is not pleasant, Handled properly because the language was built ground up for Ops tasks. There is even a syntax for "run a command and parse the output". Rationale and examples - https://ngs-lang.org/doc/latest/man/ngswhy.1.html https://ngs-lang.org/doc/latest/man/ngswhy.1.html Currently NGS supports Linux and MacOS. > smallish binary Unfortunately there is no static build yet so can't check this checkbox Next Generation Shell - https://github.com/ngs-lang/ngs https://github.com/ngs-lang/ngs Alternative Shells list by @chubot - https://github.com/oilshell/oil/wiki/Alternative-Shells https://github.com/oilshell/oil/wiki/Alternative-Shells