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Nim
Nim is a statically typed compiled systems programming language. It combines successful concepts from mature languages like Python, Ada and Modula. Its design focuses on efficiency, expressiveness, and elegance (in that order of priority).
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oils
Oils is our upgrade path from bash to a better language and runtime. It's also for Python and JavaScript users who avoid shell!
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InfluxDB
InfluxDB high-performance time series database. Collect, organize, and act on massive volumes of high-resolution data to power real-time intelligent systems.
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murex
A smarter shell and scripting environment with advanced features designed for usability, safety and productivity (eg smarter DevOps tooling)
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Silk.NET
The high-speed OpenGL, OpenCL, OpenAL, OpenXR, GLFW, SDL, Vulkan, Assimp, WebGPU, and DirectX bindings library your mother warned you about.
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expr
Discontinued Expression language and expression evaluation for Go [Moved to: https://github.com/expr-lang/expr] (by antonmedv)
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mapstructure
Discontinued Go library for decoding generic map values into native Go structures and vice versa.
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Gitea
Git with a cup of tea! Painless self-hosted all-in-one software development service, including Git hosting, code review, team collaboration, package registry and CI/CD
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SaaSHub
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Goscript: Go For (go-pher?) Scripting
Goscript is an opinionated tool aimed at making scripting in Go more convenient. It was inspired by bitfield/script, which brings functionality similar to Unix pipes to Go. By opinionated, I mean that Goscript embraces Go modules (rather than GOPATH with modules turned off) and uses a dedicated module project for your "scripts". It asks you to update your PATH as part of the setup so that your scripts can be immediately available as system-wide commands. It enables treating Go code like a local script with --exec and shebang options, but encourages reuse by letting you name your commands and then saving them, together with source, in your dedicated Goscript project. Finally, its many options are designed to make the project fade into the background and make writing scripts in Go convenient and easy like your favorite scripting language.
- Shell-ish scripting in Go with ease
- Script: Making it easy to write shell-like scripts in Go
- Making it easy to write shell-like scripts in Go
- Go is my hammer, and everything is a nail
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Using ARG in a Dockerfile – beware the gotcha
That's why I plan on migrating all my shell scripts to Golang programs f.ex. using https://github.com/bitfield/script -- it already has a number of simulations of shell commands and I'd contribute others if I had the time.
sh / bash / zsh scripts are just fragile and that's the inconvenient truth. People who devised the shell interpreters had good intentions but ultimately their creations grew to a scope 1000x bigger than they intended, hence all the "do X but if Y flag is set then do Z... unless flag A is also set in which case do Y and part of Z".
It's horrendous and I seriously don't get what's so difficult in just coding these scripts in a programming language that provides single statically linked binaries (like Golang) and just distribute it with your images -- or run them in CI/CD and have init containers and never include them in the images in the first place.
Inertia, of course. But I'll be actively working against it until I retire.
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GNU Parallel, where have you been all my life?
I use Go. You can run scripts with go run directly, and this package makes shell tasks easy: https://github.com/bitfield/script
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Scripting with Go: A Modest Proposal
If you're not deeply familiar with Go there is one detail missing from this post (though it's in the script README) - what a complete program looks like. Here's the example from https://github.com/bitfield/script#a-realistic-use-case
package main - 'script' is for writing shell-like pipelines in Go
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A note from our sponsor - InfluxDB
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bitfield/script is an open source project licensed under MIT License which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of script is Go.
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