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Crush is an attempt to make a traditional command line shell that is also a modern programming language. It has the features one would expect from a modern programming language like a type system, closures and lexical scoping, but with a syntax geared toward both batch and interactive shell usage.
What features of a traditional shell does Crush retain?
The basic structure of the Crush language resembles a regular shell like bash.
How to invoke commands, pass arguments and set up pipelines are unchanged, as is the central concept of a current working directory. This means that trivial invocations, like ls or find .. | count look the same, but under the hood they are quite different, and nearly everything beyond that is different.