[GoblinSlayer]

I wrote such a program, that runs other programs for heavy lifting but also parses text which you can't possibly do in bash.

[sargstuff]

bootloader, systemd, or init ?

Parsing text isn't anything fancy.

It's just knowing what the marker is for a word/item boundary.

For bash, that marker is defined in IFS

[GoblinSlayer]

A build system for single file programs.