Late to the party, but I believe Raku deserves a mention. I replaced most of my shell scripting with Raku. It offers a lot of features that help, one of the big

Late to the party, but I believe Raku deserves a mention. I replaced most of my shell scripting with Raku. It offers a lot of features that help, one of the biggest wins being Grammars. They make parsing and transforming parsed data a breeze. There's a book full of oneliners[1] for many typical tasks - it's a little more verbose than Perl sometimes, but it's more consistent and predictable, which helped a lot in learning it. [1] https://leanpub.com/raku-oneliners https://leanpub.com/raku-oneliners