closh

Closh combines the best of traditional unix shells with the power of Clojure. It aims to be a modern alternative to bash. Bash has obscure syntax for non-trivial operations and lots of WTF moments. It treats everything as text while we mostly need to manipulate structured information. It is a large codebase which makes it difficult to hack on it and try innovative ideas. Which is one of the reasons why the shell did not improve much in recent decades. Traditional shells are limited in terms of presentation and discoverability, what if we could bring back a richer environment as imagined by lisp machines? Clojure's has a simple syntax and well-thought design which makes it pleasurable to work with. Its extensive collection of powerful functions for data manipulation is suitable to provide solutions for daily tasks. Write shell scripts in a language you use daily for development so you don't have to google arcane shell constructs every time you need to do anything but the simplest tasks.