Idio, a Programmable Shell

What it does

Idio is a programming language for orchestrating commands like a shell. It is asking the question, can we write better shell scripts by integrating shell-like constructions into a programming language? The motivation behind Idio is to be able to write shell scripts and to not have to change languages to perform some, ostensibly, simple task. Other languages which are not predicated on orchestrating commands. Do we go all-in with the other language and lose the shell’s expressibility, do we fight with quoting to get results back? It doesn’t seem right. We should be able to manage complex data structures, we should be able to interact with terminal based programs whose prompts are…from idio-lang.org

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