almost all of the most useful scripting languages are some sort of bridge to native functionality . PHP, awk, Perl , to a lesser degree python. The author is

almost all of the most useful scripting languages are some sort of bridge to native functionality . PHP, awk, Perl , to a lesser degree python. The author is trying to bring the better type checking, concurrency, deterministic syntax and error handling of go to the world of shell scripting. Most scripts end up becoming programs themselves and go beyond their original scope. It would be nice to force better concurrency & error handling early on before the script takes on 5k lines of functionality.