Ruby: A great language for shell scripts

1. truffleruby

   1 31 3,106 9.8 Ruby

   A high performance implementation of the Ruby programming language, built on GraalVM.

   

   It's not quite what you're describing, but TruffleRuby is Ruby on GraalVM:

   https://github.com/oracle/truffleruby

   Unlike GraalVM Java, as far as I can tell TruffleRuby doesn't provide a bundler that can create a single executable out of everything.

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3. Ammonite-Ops

   2 18 2,622 8.6 Scala

   Scala Scripting

   

   for Scala there's Ammonite which can do this https://ammonite.io/#MagicImports

4. Nuitka

   3 103 13,110 10.0 Python

   Nuitka is a Python compiler written in Python. It's fully compatible with Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.4-3.13. You feed it your Python app, it does a lot of clever things, and spits out an executable or extension module.

   

   You could try Nuitka [1], but I don't have enough experience with it to say if it's any less brittle than PyInstaller.

   [1]: https://nuitka.net/

5. buildpacks

   4 8 53 8.6 Ruby

   Heroku Cloud Native Buildpacks (by heroku)

   

   Bootstrapping and different behavior for different versions and not being able to use the dependency ecosystem really make it a lot more difficult than people realize if you’re trying to “script” at scale.

   I’ve used rust for this task but people get mad that I’m calling it a “script”. “That’s not a script that’s a program” which…sure. But so maybe we need another term for it? “Production-scripts” or something.

   My experience is rewriting Ruby and bash buildpacks for the open spec CNCF Cloud Native Buildpack project (CNB) https://github.com/heroku/buildpacks

   I agree that Ruby is easier to start and grow complexity, that would be a good place to start.

6. scriptisto

   5 10 1,031 5.2 Rust

   A language-agnostic "shebang interpreter" that enables you to write scripts in compiled languages.

   

   Scriptisto is an underrated tool: https://github.com/igor-petruk/scriptisto

   It can do the Python venv stuff behind the scenes for you and it just looks like a single Python file.

7. pants

   6 41 3,492 9.8 Python

   The Pants Build System

   

   You actually can distribute a whole executable, python and all, with .pex tools: https://docs.pex-tool.org/

   You have to mind your dependency packages and build options if you want cross-platform, but you can also "cross compile" to make distributions for a platform.

   Pants is in some ways even better for building .pex files, managing options, dependencies, and lockfiles, at the expense of a bit of more complexity (understanding pants options): https://www.pantsbuild.org/

8. pex

   7 13 3,922 9.4 Python

   A tool for generating .pex (Python EXecutable) files, lock files and venvs.

   

   You actually can distribute a whole executable, python and all, with .pex tools: https://docs.pex-tool.org/

   You have to mind your dependency packages and build options if you want cross-platform, but you can also "cross compile" to make distributions for a platform.

   Pants is in some ways even better for building .pex files, managing options, dependencies, and lockfiles, at the expense of a bit of more complexity (understanding pants options): https://www.pantsbuild.org/

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10. direnv

    8 182 13,457 8.7 Go

    unclutter your .profile

    

    There are plenty of ways to have the venv automatically activate (and de-activate) when you enter/leave the directory for the project. direnv [0], mise [1], or various shell hooks.

    There are useful libraries, I’m not saying there aren’t. I just dislike it when people include one as a dependency when they really didn’t need it.

    [0]: https://github.com/direnv/direnv

    [1]: https://github.com/jdx/mise

11. mise

    9 79 15,348 9.9 Rust

    dev tools, env vars, task runner

    

    There are plenty of ways to have the venv automatically activate (and de-activate) when you enter/leave the directory for the project. direnv [0], mise [1], or various shell hooks.

    There are useful libraries, I’m not saying there aren’t. I just dislike it when people include one as a dependency when they really didn’t need it.

    [0]: https://github.com/direnv/direnv

    [1]: https://github.com/jdx/mise

12. open3

    10 1 105 5.3 Ruby

    Open3 gives you access to stdin, stdout, and stderr when running other programs.

    

13. ruby-linux-initrd

    11 1 2 4.1 Ruby

    linux image with ruby utils and shell

    

    I've been working (intermittently) on a project to do exactly this: https://github.com/0mWh/ruby-linux-initrd

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