Amber - the programming language compiled to Bash
Amber - the programming language compiled to Bash
New favorite tool 😍
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with no support for associative arrays (dicts / hashmaps) or custom data structs this looks very limited to me
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Does Bash support those? I think the idea is that it's basically Bash, as if written by a sane person. So it supports the same features as Bash but without the army of footguns.
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A language being compiled should be able to support higher-level language concepts than what the target supports natively. That's how compiling works in the first place.
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That depends on how readable you want the output to be. It's already pretty bad on that front. If you start supporting arbitrary features it's going to end up as a bytecode interpreter. Which would be pretty cool too tbf! Has anyone written a WASM runtime in bash? 😄
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Honestly, wouldn't it be great if POSIX eventually specified a WASM runtime?
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Yeah definitely! I wouldn't hold your breath though. Especially as that's pretty much an escape route from POSIX. I doubt they'd be too keen to lose power.
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it does, well at least associative arrays
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