Show HN: Flint – A compiled language to replace complex Bash scripts

Hi HN, I'm the creator of Flint. Over the years, I got tired of CI/CD pipelines breaking because a 300-line Bash script had a silent error, or waiting for Python to boot and load modules just to parse a JSON payload.

Flint is a strictly typed, compiled language built specifically for infrastructure scripting. It uses an arena allocator (zero GC) and compiles to standalone native binaries. It's not general-purpose (no async, no floats, no web servers). It's built for one thing: replacing fragile glue code with fast, safe native binaries.

Happy to answer any questions about the compiler architecture or our zero-copy I/O implementation!