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Bish is a language that compiles to Bash. It's designed to give shell scripting a more comfortable and modern feel.

9 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 1 story, 8 comments · first 2015-03-08 · latest 2023-12-26

Mentions per year 9 mentions · busiest year 2015 (5)
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  1. https://github.com/batsh-dev-team/Batsh https://github.com/tdenniston/bish (Just fyi. I've been collecting links to similar things because of Reasons).
  2. …bash. Could it be so hard? There's a dead project that comes up now and then called bish. https://github.com/tdenniston/bish
    comment by robbywashere_ · 2023-08-09 · in Pure Bash Bible (2018)
  3. …om/questions/10239235/are-there-any-l... I vaguely remember quite liking bish when I saw it years ago https://github.com/tdenniston/bish but it looks like no commits in 6 years. This shelljs thing looks more promising, but really tedious…
    comment by CannisterFlux · 2022-02-21 · in Ask HN: Let's build Checkstyle for Bash?
  4. …script to bash. I haven't touched it in a few years now, but maybe it's of interest to someone: https://github.com/tdenniston/bish
  5. …much time to work on it recently, and it's still missing some features, but it's ready to use now: https://github.com/tdenniston/bish
    comment by bishc · 2015-05-18 · in Fish shell
  6. …"bish" (compiles to bash) which aims to solve many of these annoyances with shell scripting: https://github.com/tdenniston/bish
  7. …So this is a great time for a shameless plug! Last week I released a language called 'bish' ( https://github.com/tdenniston/bish ) which compiles to bash, but has none of the same syntactical weirdness. So the idea is: write and maintain…
  8. …this issue. It compiles to bash for portability, but has more modern and familiar syntax. See https://github.com/tdenniston/bish for the repo and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9166386 for some previous discussion. The language is…