[everforward]

Do these apply to NuShell? I think something like that is the way forward. Something with real data types rather than implicitly doing weird array processing. I would be pretty happy with something similar to Python but with easier IO redirection and subprocess management.

xonsh is neat in principle, but painful in actual usage ime. And I suspect vulnerable to similar issues around the Python-bash interop.

[alganet]

What would you do with `configure` scripts?

Let's say you need to install some third party software that is pretty standard `./configure && make && make install`, what would you do? Port `configure` to python?

[sshine]

sh

[IYasha]

I'd be happy with AngelScript or smth. Hard-typed, but interpretable. But not Python[-like]. I'd kill it with SIGFIRE.