Comment by OskarS

Is Guile really that good at the shell scripting "thing"? Like, the bash superpower is that it makes it extremely easy to run subprocesses in incredibly flexible ways (in the background, foreground, in pipelines, with stdout/stderr redirected to files, etc. etc.). Can Guile do that smoothly? I generally find that doing things like this is way more awkward in most "real" programming languages compared to shell scripting languages.