Most regular programming languages provide an option to execute shell commands, so, why don´t you not use any of them to do the things you regularly woud do with a shell script? As long as you do not need an UI or complex interactions, things are not much different from writing scripts.
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Most regular programming languages provide an option to execute shell commands, so, why don´t you not use any of them to do the things you regularly woud do with a shell script? As long as you do not need an UI or complex interactions, things are not much different from writing scripts.
Yes, but with which ones ?
Some programming languages are better at replacing Bash than others
After the discussion I would bet on JavaScript with zx, Python, Go, V
Seems a good choice, maybe you should add Rust? I do not think the language matters too much. Just try to use the language that you know best.