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I'm never sure when these plugs become too much, but... I created a language called bish that allows you to write your shell scripts in a sane and comfortable syntax. No more remem…

More generally, SSA means implicit use/def information. Use/def information and traversal are critical components of many static analyses and transformations: having the IR in SSA …

In my experience, many people will miss the significance of this, or will simply fail to grasp how this is implementing a programming language at all. After all, you're taking adva…

Shameless plug for my language "bish" (compiles to bash) which aims to solve many of these annoyances with shell scripting: https://github.com/tdenniston/bish

I see a lot of discussion on the awkwardness and idiosyncrasies of shells like bash.... So this is a great time for a shameless plug! Last week I released a language called 'bish' …

This is quite apropos, as just last week I released a little language called 'bish' designed to overcome exactly this issue. It compiles to bash for portability, but has more moder…

There is a section of the readme titled "Why" :-).

Interesting notion! I personally am not a fan of whitespace sensitivity, but I understand why many people are. For me, after spending years writing code with curly braces and semic…

That's what I was going for. Not a replacement for bash the shell, but a language that provides a bit more comfort for programmers while retaining the ability to run on any system …

(OP here). You're right: for simple tasks like listing files or changing directories, you probably don't need bish. I should come up with some better examples where bish wins in re…