I remember Gentoo once started a project to parse Bash scripts in C - [libbash](https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Libbash). For some reasons it was abandoned, but maybe can be reused in such a rewrite:

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I remember Gentoo once started a project to parse Bash scripts in C - libbash. For some reasons it was abandoned, but maybe can be reused in such a rewrite:

• https://github.com/groundwater/gentoo-libbash
• https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2012/Ideas/libbash

You might even go further and convert the bash/zsh sources from C to Rust using amazing c2rust automated converter and refactoring tool.

Wish you luck, that would be an amazing project!

Originally posted by @XVilka in koalaman/shellcheck#809 (comment)