Some time ago I tried writing a terminal environment that would fit better for people familiar with JS and Python. I failed miserably, but I still think it would be a good idea.<p><a href="http://xon.sh/" rel="nofollow">http://xon.sh/</a> is something related, but my idea was to make more interesting use of pipes, like passing structured data.
Good to have these things. See also <a href="https://github.com/Russell91/pythonpy" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/Russell91/pythonpy</a> and <a href="https://github.com/alecthomas/pawk" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/alecthomas/pawk</a>