Lua as a Bash alternative

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  • nushell

    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

    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

    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

    :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

    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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