Comment by rollcat

I like the general idea of execline, but I feel like it relies too much on chaining. It's a bit like Lisp, but without any parens - it hurts readability.

It went from "shells have too much syntax, which creates security issues" straight into "forth with blocks". My idea: runit already provides chpst, which folds things like cd, chroot, nice, etc into a single command; so let's put it all into a block with named parameters. Like this:

    run {
        dir: /usr/src/foo
        script: {
            ./configure
            make -j(nproc)
            make install
        }
        nice: 20
        ionice: idle
    }

Maybe it could draw a bit from rc, which has actual lists as a first-class data structure.

I'm not exactly sure about the syntax, but that's the general direction.