Yes, the home page says that it's for Python and JavaScript users that avoid shell: https://www.oilshell.org/

Also see The Simplest Explanation of Oil https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2020/01/simplest-explanation.h...

In addition to being "decent" / familiar / learnable, it's also more powerful, as bash is showing its age and lacking features many users would like (recursive data structures, JSON, etc.)