That's one good way to describe Oil: a middle ground between shell and Python. e.g. this post has the slogan that it's "for Python and JS programmers who avoid

That's one good way to describe Oil: a middle ground between shell and Python. e.g. this post has the slogan that it's "for Python and JS programmers who avoid shell". http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2020/01/simplest-explanation.html http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2020/01/simplest-explanation.ht... Oil has hash tables, and can manipulate paths with spaces -- in fact the latest blog post is about that! http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2021/04/simple-word-eval.html http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2021/04/simple-word-eval.html Also the same blog post mentions that we should get rid of ${VAR##ugh}. Help wanted :)