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Amber - the programming language compiled to Bash (amber-lang.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/programming

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[–] BatmanAoD 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] FizzyOrange 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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? 😄

[–] BatmanAoD 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Honestly, wouldn't it be great if POSIX eventually specified a WASM runtime?

[–] FizzyOrange 1 points 7 months ago

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.