Scripting with Go

• murex

  55 1,364 9.6 Go

  A smarter shell and scripting environment with advanced features designed for usability, safety and productivity (eg smarter DevOps tooling)

https://github.com/lmorg/murex

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One obvious benefit over what's suggested in the article is that you can use it interactively first, with autocomplete and such goodies, and transition smoothly to a script later.

• gorun

  5 935 1.5 Go

  gorun is a tool enabling one to put a "bang line" in the source code of a Go program to run it, or to run such a source code file explicitly. It was created in an attempt to make experimenting with Go more appealing to people used to Python and similar languages which operate most visibly with source code.

I'll have to check this out properly later. 10 years ago go devs rejected the idea of introducing support hashbangs and now we're left with having to use gorun[0], meaning, people are unlikely to use go for script.

I hope the go devs will reconsider. I'd love to be able to use go for scripting. But as it stands, it's a sad state of affairs because you have to rely on hacks.

[0] https://github.com/erning/gorun/

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• oil

  234 2,720 9.9 Python

  Oils is our upgrade path from bash to a better language and runtime. It's also for Python and JavaScript users who avoid shell!

  

FWIW a lot of other host languages are more DSL-like, and have similar libraries:

https://github.com/oilshell/oil/wiki/Internal-DSLs-for-Shell

It looks like this particular one relies on method chaining

    script.Args().Concat().Match("Error").First(10).Stdout()

• script

  11 5,070 5.2 Go

  Making it easy to write shell-like scripts in Go

It took me a while to find the link to the library "script" and it's repo - https://github.com/bitfield/script

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