Anyone else do any scripting? I recently had to write a backup script in bash and it was a bit of a pain in the ass. Personally I'm considering just writing go apps for anything I need to script beyond a one-shot one-liner.
Interesting idea, but compiling to bash is a weird choice; the only advantage something like this could have over perl or python is better portability, but not having bash is probably more common than not having python. Bourne-compatible would make sense as a compilation target if you want minimal dependencies.
I prefer tcl to a real shell for my shell scripting. It's close enough to a shell language that it isn't uncomfortable to use it as one, but aggressively simple. I liked scsh, but it's still not 64-bit clean and I got tired of configuring package managers to install 32-bit system libraries, but not to install 32-bit compatibility everything. I have been wanting to port the posix bits over to Guile for years, but keep finding something more pressing or interesting to do instead.