[bsdooby]

Currently looking @ alternatives (not that I dislike AWK, far from it):

Tokay: https://github.com/tokay-lang/tokay

frawk: https://github.com/ezrosent/frawk

[lambertsimnel]

Have you considered tab?

https://tkatchev.bitbucket.io/tab/

[sgu999]

What do you think of them? Tokay in particular looks very polished.

[bsdooby]

TBH: no conclusion yet (did not find time ATM to try it out in fill detail)...sorry

[geophile]

Take a look at marcel: https://github.com/geophile/marcel