Oh people have tried - here are a few https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10239235/are-there-any-languages-that-compile-to-bash https://stackoverflow.com/questi

Oh people have tried - here are a few https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10239235/are-there-any-languages-that-compile-to-bash https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10239235/are-there-any-l... I vaguely remember quite liking bish when I saw it years ago https://github.com/tdenniston/bish https://github.com/tdenniston/bish but it looks like no commits in 6 years. This shelljs thing looks more promising, but really tedious to use https://github.com/shelljs/shelljs https://github.com/shelljs/shelljs - shell.rm('-rf', 'out/Release'); I'd rather suffer proper bash than have to do that sort of thing. Nothing seems to have really caught on so far. Bash is easy to learn and hack on, and before you know it, that simple install.sh that started out moving a few files around is 5000 lines, unmaintainable, and critical to bootstrapping your software :)