I will make no claims or implications whatsoever that it's "production-ready", but a different strategy which could work is to use Awk (which is at least as omn

I will make no claims or implications whatsoever that it's "production-ready", but a different strategy which could work is to use Awk (which is at least as omnipresent as bash) to bootstrap an interpreter for a richer scripting language: https://beyondloom.com/blog/lila.html https://beyondloom.com/blog/lila.html