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Amber - the programming language compiled to Bash
Amber - the programming language compiled to Bash
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Why not compile it to sh though.
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There is no sh shell. /bin/sh is just a symlink to bash or dash or zsh etc.
But yes, the question is valid why it compiles specifically to bash and not something posix-compliant
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There is no sh shell.
lol
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Yes, there was the bourne sh on Unix but I don't see how that's relevant here. We're talking about operating systems in use. Please explain the downvotes
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It's relevant because there are still platforms that don't have actual Bash (e.g. containers using Busybox).
shis not just a symlink: when invoked using the symlink, the target binary must run in POSIX compliant mode. So it's effectively a sub-dialect.Amber compiles to a language, not to a binary. So "why doesn't it compile to
sh" is a perfectly reasonable question, and refers to the POSIX shell dialect, not to the/bin/shsymlink itself.-
Thanks
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