To me the interest in this would be as a replacement for bash in makefiles with the hope that it could be cross platform and not require most of the utilities like sed/awk etc. It's an enormous pain to write x-platform builds with make because of shell issues - even with cygwin.
For this to work one would probably want to embed python and have a pool of interpreters so as not to pay the startup cost of python on every job invocation.
"That Said" I think passing around structures is not that useful to me - one is often trying to automate programs that are not written that way.
Python's pipe handling is complicated and horrible compared to bash and that's the thing I'd really want to "buy" from this - together with more shell-like ways to copy, search, touch files that are platform independent.
For this to work one would probably want to embed python and have a pool of interpreters so as not to pay the startup cost of python on every job invocation.
"That Said" I think passing around structures is not that useful to me - one is often trying to automate programs that are not written that way.
Python's pipe handling is complicated and horrible compared to bash and that's the thing I'd really want to "buy" from this - together with more shell-like ways to copy, search, touch files that are platform independent.