I posted it here to start a discussion not as an endorsement as we have all kinds of sugary compilers - for JavaScript and other languages, but none of Bash. Cross-platform support would be nice and as others have pointed out, PowerShell really took over Batch especially when Microsoft took care of the slow loading issue. I personally would rather have an extension of Bash rather than a brand new language, but that's me. In fact, I've been thinking of a simple preprocessor that even combines a bunch of scripts into a single one for easier distribution.