You can get a similar effect in Elixir scripts with Mix.install/2: https://github.com/wojtekmach/mix_install_examples https://github.com/wojtekmach/mix_install_

You can get a similar effect in Elixir scripts with Mix.install/2: https://github.com/wojtekmach/mix_install_examples https://github.com/wojtekmach/mix_install_examples It supports git-links as well as package names in repos and versions. Also happens to be a very nice and capable scripting platform, with a reasonably small runtime.