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

Re:Show HN: A complete Bash parser in JavaScript transpiled ... by Zalastax on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @07:29PM (#17087290)

An important heads up: "Parsing Bash is Undecidable". https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2016/10/20.html

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Re:Show HN: A complete Bash parser in JavaScript transpiled ... by mvdan on Thursday May 17, 2018 @07:29AM (#17090397)

Yep, I've exchanged a few emails with Andy before, the oilshell author. I started the parser in early 2016, so we were both getting started around the same time.

If you look at my README's caveats section, you'll see a very similar story - only accepting programs that can be parsed statically in a simple way.

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