I sometimes wonder why bash transpilers aren't more popular? Bash is such a strange language (or maybe just very old with lots of cruft) that it's impossible to write anything meaningful without check SO 5 times.
Given i haven't spent a lot of time writing shell script yet but the syntax is just super weird, like I recently learned(1) that when you When you write if [ -e /etc/passwd ]; then .. that bracket is not shell syntax but just a regular command with a funny name.
Is there a recommended bash transpiler like what babel is to Js? So i can write bash scripts using a more coherent language and it spits out .sh files.
`if` and iterations were two things that annoyed me about bash enough to write my own $SHELL. It's not a transpiler though so I can't realistically use it for production services. However for quickly hacking stuff together for testing / personal use it's been a life saver due to having the same prototyping speed of bash but without the painful edge cases.
Not suggesting it's suitable for everyone though. But it's certainly solved a lot of problems for me.