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bash is great but it's close to hitting it's limits as far as extensibility and maintenance. I'm considering porting this to a new language and I'm looking for thoughts and ideas. My first thought is to use golang but that is a compiled language and would remove some of the transparency of the code. All the code would still be open source and available here with instructions to compile yourself if you felt that was more comfortable.

I may turn this in to a discussion topic if there are people interested in this or have other ideas and concerns.