Lua as a Bash alternative

• nushell

  212 29,864 9.9 Rust

  A new type of shell

  

There is nushell as something more advanced than shell scripts but with the same feel. It has data types other than text, for example numbers, lists, records, tables and closures.

• asdf

  340 20,448 7.9 Shell

  Extendable version manager with support for Ruby, Node.js, Elixir, Erlang & more

  

I thought the website itself (https://asdf-vm.com/) was plenty helpful, but TBH I’ve been using it for years so maybe I’m not looking at it with a fresh enough eye.

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• dotfiles

  2 0 6.3 Shell

  dotfiles backed up with chezmoi (by StandingPadAnimations)

Yeah, I've updated since then to do most of the processing in Lua (and changed to an up to date sh library): https://github.com/StandingPadAnimations/dotfiles/blob/main/dot_config/hypr/wallpaper/executable_wallpaper.lua

• xonsh

  112 7,986 8.9 Python

  :shell: Python-powered, cross-platform, Unix-gazing shell.

  

Better than PowerShell, but not bash-wards compatible makes it not a great choice for me. Waiting for Python12 and going to try xonsh again. Python native and bash-wards compatible 🤯

• zx

  114 41,571 7.6 JavaScript

  A tool for writing better scripts

  

I’m partial to zx and powershell for scripting. It seems like lua is along the lines of ZX so definitely usable

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