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Hello!
I’m currently preparing a presentation for a conference about Kotlin Script and I want to give more examples of its use in real life.
Can you tell me if you use a Kotlin script in your production? For what cases?

<https://github.com/typesafegithub/github-workflows-kt|https://github.com/typesafegithub/github-workflows-kt> (I'm the owner - shameless plug, but well, I do use it in production :grin: also see <https://typesafegithub.github.io/github-workflows-kt/projects-using-this-library/|https://typesafegithub.github.io/github-workflows-kt/projects-using-this-library/>)

I don't use kotlin scripts yet but am planning to. I place most of the heavy logic in gradle plugins so not much logic in the script but I would say the fact that you can replace bash or python logic code with kotlin, is just great.

Yes my company has a custom Kotlin Scripting engine that we use for everything scripting-related. It's a bash-free zone.

We published the docs and an old version here: <https://hshell.hydraulic.dev/14.0/>

(it's not open source)

Mostly to gauge interest (there is none, unfortunately .... better shell scripting is not a problem people seem to have, even if I happen to enjoy using hshell).

I'd guess we have on the order of 25 such scripts. They are used to drive our end-to-end integration tests, website builds, deployments, to automate tasks like creating blog posts or new modules in our source tree, regenerate source files etc...

<@U0BDMQTHS> I can share some feedback since I prefer Kotlin scripting over Bash/Python whenever I can. For stuff like `touch("foo")` that is easily done with the Java API, I just resort to `File(...).doStuff()`. If I need to call an external command (and I do rarely), there's <https://github.com/lordcodes/turtle>. I appreciate that hshell is like a coherent "batteries included" environment to write scripts, but the fact that it's closed-source and that I don't know who's behind it makes me a bit reluctant to use it and commit to maintaining scripts using it long term

At the moment it's not being promoted for external use anyway, but that's why it's not public. Given a choice between bash or a better scripting environment that costs a bit of money (maybe 10 bucks or so), people will stick with what's free. So there's not much incentive to do the work to productize and support it.

Phrased another way: it's not a problem people have.

<https://github.com/openrndr/orx/tree/master/orx-jvm/orx-olive>