As a web designer I don't program much these days, but still like to write little UNIX scripts to solve my day-to-day problems. These problems of course primarily involve manipulating UTF-8 strings. I'll never cease to be amazed by how beautiful and universal UTF-8 strings are. By universalizing UTF-8 strings as the only type all our functions are composable by default, and in such a natural language for humans printf debugging is always trivial.
However few would fail to admit that shell has an immensely under-powered syntax, so naturally I use Google's ZX, an elegant node.js application which allows me to use Javascript to fulfill all my scripting needs, and with institutional support I know I can rely on: https://github.com/google/zx I'm one of 27.8k and growing who have stared the project on Microsoft Github. Join us and we'll collaboratively invent the future of computing, together.