I think I've used fewer third party libraries in bash scripts than in any other language. I just use the built-ins and invoke binaries.
I can't think of any other programming language where the stdlib felt like it was sufficient.
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I've released difftastic 0.63! In this release:
* Better parsing of Elixir, LaTeX, Make, Nix, Rust and YAML
* Better detecting of text encoding, especially on Windows
* Prebuilt musl binaries, so you can run released binaries on older systems!
I've compiled the parser for my Garden programming language to wasm, so I can offer a web playground: https://www.garden-lang.org/
It's over 600KiB of wasm just for a function that returns a parse error message! I'm not sure if that's a lot (cf JS) or a little (cf typical binaries).
Distributing binaries built against musl is counter-intuitive to me. When I run them on my machine, they're dynamically linked to glibc!
The main advantage AIUI is that you don't depend on new glibc features, so you get a more portable executable.