Amber - the programming language compiled to Bash
Amber - the programming language compiled to Bash
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with no support for associative arrays (dicts / hashmaps) or custom data structs this looks very limited to me
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.
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.
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? 😄
Honestly, wouldn't it be great if POSIX eventually specified a WASM runtime?
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.
it does, well at least associative arrays