Elisp is actually exceptional for scripting :). You can also compile Emacs without graphics for even faster startup, check emacs-nox, and you can run it as a sc

Elisp is actually exceptional for scripting :). You can also compile Emacs without graphics for even faster startup, check emacs-nox, and you can run it as a script: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsScripts https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsScripts. What you get extra is a really good debugger (edebug), and text processing library extensions so you don't need to start extra processes (grep, awk, tr & co) just to extract some text from one output and send it to another. They also have really, really good integration with system, almost on par with Bash. So despite Lisp being more verbose than a DSL like Bash script, you win tons by just having a debugger. Completion and Emacs auto-typing features (snippets, abbrevs, autoinsert etc) compensate for the verbosty.