Show HN: A complete Bash parser in JavaScript transpiled from Go

Re:Show HN: A complete Bash parser in JavaScript transpiled ... by ddtaylor on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @03:12PM (#17085502)

Not that it's useful or desired, but could one transpile it into pure bash as well? It's Turing complete isn't it?

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Re:Show HN: A complete Bash parser in JavaScript transpiled ... by mvdan on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @05:28PM (#17086653)

I'm not sure I understand what you're saying. If there was a Go->Bash transpiler (or a JS->Bash one), yes, we would theoretically end up with a Bash parser and interpreter in Bash.

I imagine it would be quite the monster, though.

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Re:Show HN: A complete Bash parser in JavaScript transpiled ... by solarkraft on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @07:04PM (#17087168)

Luckily the current creation isn't already one.

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Re:Show HN: A complete Bash parser in JavaScript transpiled ... by mvdan on Thursday May 17, 2018 @07:45AM (#17090477)

I'm going to go on assuming that you're not being sarcastic :)

As I mentioned in another comment, once Go's wasm support is shipped and stable, I hope to make the JS package smaller and better. Until then, this is the best I can do without manually rewriting the Go code in JS.

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