Batsh VS zgenom

https://github.com/batsh-dev-team/Batsh

https://github.com/tdenniston/bish

(Just fyi. I've been collecting links to similar things because of Reasons).

I wish there was a nicer shell scripting language that simply transpiled to Bash and would generate all this boilerplate code for me. There is https://batsh.org/ which has a nice syntax but it doesn't even support pipes or redirection, making it pretty worthless for shell scripting. I haven't found any other such scripting languages.

There are some languages that compile into bash like Batch. Shell commands can also be called from Python code using this (never tried it): https://plumbum.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html

Maybe https://github.com/batsh-dev-team/Batsh

Not really what you're asking for, but a language that compiles to bash for portability reminded me of Batsh [0], a C-like language that compiles to bash for Linux/Mac and batch for Windows.

[0] https://github.com/batsh-dev-team/Batsh

There used to be something called Batsh as well but no longer seems to be actively developed

There are a couple projects that provide a language that compiles to Bash, which gets around Oil's portability problem somewhat. Bish and Batsh come to mind.

If you liked legacy zgen, zgenom picks up where it left off and is simple but featureful

zgenom for zsh plugin manager. I've found this one to be fastest when compared to others since it generates a static init script

Author of Antidote here. I want to start by saying u/MrMarlon did a great job with znap, and it's a solid choice. zcomet and zgenom are also great. For modern Zsh plugin managers that are actively developed, I'd say these are my top 4 picks.

Plugin managers: ZI, Zinit, Zpm, Zgenom, Zgen (after and if the PR will be merged).

Have you had a look at zgenom?

Would you mind listing zgenom instead of/additionally to zgen? It's a maintained fork of zgen which has received some bug fixed and new features 😊

Please check it out at https://github.com/jandamm/zgenom and give a ⭐️ if you like it :)

Or zgenom[0]. Or if you want to get ESPECIALLY froggy and async with your shell startup, zinit[1]. I ran zinit for years before moving to zgenom. A large swath of electron apps use some weird NPM library to “resolve” your shell environment by kicking up a full interactive shell and then reading the environment variables out of it. zinit messed with that and would hang a lot because of all it’s async loading.

[0] https://github.com/jandamm/zgenom

if [[ ! -f "${HOME}/.zgenom/zgenom.zsh" ]]; then git clone https://github.com/jandamm/zgenom.git "${HOME}/.zgenom" fi source "${HOME}/.zgenom/zgenom.zsh" # check for updates ever 7 days zgenom autoupdate # only runs when ```.zgenom/sources/init.zsh``` doesn't exist # use zgenom reset to delete init.zsh if ! zgenom saved; then zgenom load zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions zgenom load zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting zgenom load marlonrichert/zsh-autocomplete zgenom load mafredri/zsh-async zgenom load sindresorhus/pure zgenom load ${HOME}/.zsh/iterm2_shell_integration.zsh zgenom save fi

As haywire said you can try https://github.com/jandamm/zgenom (I'm the author).