I both love and hate writing Bash. I love that it\'s so streamlined for operating on files and working with processes (I agree with this popular question that it\'s way
Bish is another option:
https://github.com/tdenniston/bish
Shell scripting with a modern feel.
Bish is a lightweight language created to bring shell scripting into the 21st century. It gives programmers the comfort of modern syntax but compiles to Bash, resulting in good portability (in as much as Bash is portable).