A language that compiles to Bash and Windows Batch

Re:A language that compiles to Bash and Windows Batch by eagsalazar2 on Thursday May 19, 2016 @06:23PM (#11734344)

I've never tried but can't you already just run your node or ruby or whatever scripts on both Windows, Mac, Linux? Is there some reason targeting bash and batch is important?

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Re:A language that compiles to Bash and Windows Batch by laported on Thursday May 19, 2016 @06:31PM (#11734397)

From the README:

Why not Python/Ruby/Node.js/Lua

Yes you can use any of them as platform-independent glue code. But there are several disadvantages:

    None of them is preinstalled on all platforms (including Windows).
    Functionalities like process piping are not convenient to use.
    Hard to integrate with existing code written in Bash or Batch.

Those reasons are why I developed Batsh.

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Re:A language that compiles to Bash and Windows Batch by ygra on Thursday May 19, 2016 @06:26PM (#11734361)

Both tend to exist on their respective operating systems by default, making it something that can run without further dependencies.

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