I've been following Oil Shell for several years now by reading the blog articles. The fact that it has managed to adopt and adapt some of the best features of other popular (mostly) dynamic programming languages into a cohesive scripting language and at the same time being backward compatible with Bash is amazing.
Recently there was an HN post and discussions on Linux Router unified command written entirely in Bash [1]. When reading the discussions, the first thing that come to my mind was that it will great if this can be somehow re-written in Oil Shell. But why stop there? What I'd like eventually is a seamless wrapper that maps the native related Linux tools in Oil Shell that can provide similar Cisco IOS like commands, configs and interfaces. It can then fashion the Linux kernel into a glorious network OS without writing extensive separate native networking system services as Quagga, LiSA or Cisco NX-OS. Heck the entire NX-OS can probably be cloned with Oil Shell on top of vanilla Linux kernel and eBPF. Before someone pointed out that what so special about Cisco IOS, it is by far the most popular network OS conventions to the networking professionals, and most of them are very familiar with the configs and commands. Due to the increasingly popularity of containers and Kubernetes, robust Linux networking configuration and automation tools will be at the center of this latest trend. Always remember that Linux once started life as a poor's man clone to the very popular UNIX System V itself.