Comment by hv42

I found it really to be the perfect shell script replacement. People usually will use python for more complicated shell scripts but deno is just awesome at this. Just run the file and eventually cache the dependencies for the next run. No node modules or pip install etc Also, you can use typescript without any pre-bundling.

The security model works well for this use case also. If your shell script is only supposed to read a few environment variables and not make network calls, you are covered.