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This is neat, but a) it strikes me that what's powerful about shell scripting is that it lets you easily wrangle multiple independent utilities that don't need to be contained within the shell stdlib (maybe I'm missing something but I didn't see any emphasis on that), and b) that embedding a language as a string inside another language is very rarely a good UX. I like that it's a really portable shell though. Shell portability is actually a pretty big problem.