Title: I&#x27;m at the point where I feel a certain fatigue writing Bash scripts, but I am just not sure of what the alternative is for medium sized (say, ~150-500 LOC) scripts.<p>The common refrain of &quot;use Python&quot; hasn&#x27;t really worked fantastically: I don&#x27;t know what version of Python I&#x27;m going to have on the system, installing dependencies is not fun, shelling out when needed is not pleasant, and the size of program always seemingly doubles.<p>I&#x27;m willing to accept something that&#x27;s not on the system as long as it&#x27;s one smallish binary that&#x27;s available in multiple architectures. Right now, I&#x27;ve settled on (ab)using jq, using it whenever tasks get too complex, but I&#x27;m wondering if anyone else has found a better way that should also hopefully not be completely a black box to my colleagues?
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