This seems very interesting approach to scripting. Does it basically provides with an alias to child_process.exec as $ and besides that I can write in the same

This seems very interesting approach to scripting. Does it basically provides with an alias to child_process.exec as $ and besides that I can write in the same way I'd do in Node? > Node.js standard library requires additional hassle before using I read the hassle as having to setup Node runtime in advance, but zx requires npm to install so I'm not sure.