Google ZX – A tool for writing better scripts

• zx

  120 43,403 9.4 JavaScript

  A tool for writing better scripts

  

• SaaSHub

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  SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

  

• execa

  23 6,957 9.3 JavaScript

  Process execution for humans

  I’m partial to Sindre Sorhus’ execa, this document outlines the differences:

  https://github.com/sindresorhus/execa/blob/main/docs/scripts...

• dotnet-script

  23 2,785 7.5 C#

  Run C# scripts from the .NET CLI.

  

  Especially because these languages are only one package/install away and not two. I don‘t really get for which audience is targeted here. Usage in JS projects maybe, but then why not write it as npm tasks. ..

  I‘m playing around with dotnet-scripts [1] at the moment (C# shop mainly) and this has the same issue imho. The reason why I looked into it was because we have developers not accustomed to bash etc. I still find it silly and would rather use ruby so…

  [1] https://github.com/dotnet-script/dotnet-script

• penny

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  Here's an example: https://gitlab.com/vincenttunru/penny/-/blob/main/scripts/bu...

  That used to be a shell script. But this I can way more easily read (even after not touching it for a long time), I get autocompletion, and I can use the APIs I'm already familiar with. It's a pretty neat QoL improvement for me specifically.

• rubygems

  220 3,716 9.9 Ruby

  Library packaging and distribution for Ruby.

  

  source 'https://rubygems.org'

• zxpy

  5 653 4.1 Python

  Shell scripts made simple 🐚

• xonsh

  120 8,499 9.6 Python

  :shell: Python-powered shell. Full-featured and cross-platform.

  

  Friends, I'm not saying that tools like zx are not good. I do like to write some scripts using js/ts. I believe pythoners prefer https://xon.sh/ . Perl is also attractive and interesting. Fish is friendly.

  However, I still believe that posix-shell has its own advantages. The balance among size, code length, and expressiveness. I think the only possible competitors are tcl and perl, maybe lua.

• ShellCheck

  496 36,744 8.1 Haskell

  ShellCheck, a static analysis tool for shell scripts

  If I want to write better shell scripts I usually run shellcheck and adjust accordingly or if I need facilities not provided by the shell i switch to a full fledged programming language. Ans oh yes, `sh` is present almost on every BSD and Linux box for free so I consider it an important thing to at least be comfortable with.

  shellcheck: https://www.shellcheck.net/

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