What's a scripting language that doesn't suck?

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I am a fan of just using straight bash. Linux is your standard library.

dlang.org/rdmd.html

This.

So far I agree, but
Yeah, I'm not a pajeet who will implement a whole VPN protocol in python, I just want something for stringing togheter executables and text parsing that is more featureful and portable than sh.
Shell scripting is just painful, and I don't know what's wrong with luafags but they're messed up.

I got a little erect when the perlintro mentioned text parsing, but it's late in the night now and I have to sleep.

You could try E I guess. erights.org
The most pure scripting language I've used, but still quite crap outside the capability novelties. There really is no good scripting language period. The term "scripting language" just means "flaky pile of shit for kids". You can write SML or Haskell just as fast as any other language. The idea that any general purpose PL serves some specific niche purpose is completely absurd. Yesterday I just discovered the build system Meson, which is just some piece of shit language that's basically the same as Python - why did they need to built their own language (or adopt whatever the fuck it is that they're using, instead of just using something popular).

u wot m8

Perl doesn't parse shit, it just quickly approximates. "Parsers" written in Perl never actually parse and just cause more problems down the line. But that's no problem, we have Perl to help with those! And Perl to help with the problems that causes! And Perl for…
Managing to make sh look good is a feat, but Perl manages it. There is a reason this language is mostly dead by now.

these languages are decent and they're as convenient for scripting-language tasks as scripting languages themselves.
Python/Perl -> Nim results in a smaller, faster, safer, easier to understand program.

actually dead norwegian comp.lang.lisp autist .png
regexes are fine and there's nothing magical about writing a parser for something a regex could easily handle.
even so, compile-time parser expression grammars are pretty cool. Consider github.com/Zevv/npeg
That reason is "MJD wrote about advocacy being bad and everyone in the Perl community took it like a stake through the heart".