I use Go. You can run scripts with go run directly, and this package makes shell tasks easy: https://github.com/bitfield/script
This is done absolutely superb API design - taking inspiration from shell pipes and turning it into a Go library with syntax this clean is really impressive: https://github.com/bitfield/script
It took me a while to find the link to the library "script" and it's repo - https://github.com/bitfield/script