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Oils is our upgrade path from bash to a better language and runtime. It's also for Python and JavaScript users who avoid shell! - oils-for-unix/oils

As a counterexample, bash-completion is pretty sophisticated, but it's also repetitive because it has a relatively simple function for every command on a Unix machine. bashforth-- At ~3800 lines this isn't huge, but it apparently implements a real programming language. comments clash is an object oriented framework compatible with any modern POSIX shell.

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