[raphcohn]

Thank you. It's almost impossible to have a set of 'shell functions' that are entirely independent of one another, once you move beyond a few special cases. That said, this is as near to copy and paste as you can get - it's Git based, and the idea is you just add groups of functions as git submodules. You can test and deploy as you go, and then, when you're ready, fatten the script and release it.

The shell needs to be understood. There's no doubt it's an old looking-language to most people, but that's why we should treat it with the same discipline as anything else. I'd agree that the shell can be obscure. Wherever possible, shellfire tries to make things explicit, not obscure through good naming; hence the reams of functions on core/variable to do simple things, eg core_variable_startsWith rather than having to figure the weird looking ${var?/:} syntax.