NGS, aka Next Generation Shell, is an open source programming language created in 2013 by Ilya Sher.

NGS - Next Generation Shell, a language (and a shell in the future) for ops tasks. NGS aims to be an alternative for both bash/Python/Ruby/Perl/Go and configuration management tools. It has syntax for the common operations and libraries (currently only AWS) for idempotent resources manipulation. NGS unique features include built in exit code handling and syntax for run-a-command-and-parse-output.

• NGS website
• NGS is developed on GitHub and has 1,151 stars
• NGS first developed in https://github.com/ngs-lang
• Explore NGS snippets on Rosetta Code