FYI if any java developers are looking for a one file script running environment checkout http://jpad.io/ I made it to scratch my own itch. It lets you run java snippets and view results as HTML even.

There can be some confusion between pipeline syntax and imperative syntax in Powershell, custom objects don't help either (i.e. `{...}` works differently than `[pscustomobject]{...}` for many cmdlets), but I'm curious what you consider chaotic enough to give up?

I think .Net Core is getting quite close to that.

It still needs a project file, but it has a nice command line interface, which means you don't need VS.

But I'll probably still keep using LinqPad anyway.

I think MS should buy LinqPad and give it away for free. It's just an amazing experience (having the full version is critical though).

There's a decent F/OSS implementation called CShell (bad name, I know, that's already a thing)

http://cshell.net/

Either way, neither of them run "true CSX files", but their own homegrown format that predates csx. But it has made me hopeful for the future of C# scripts.

And another called RoslynPad