A statically typed scripting language that transpiles to Posix sh

Re:A statically typed scripting language that transpiles to ... by em-bee on Friday March 25, 2022 @11:49AM (#30803602)

I love that there are examples front-and-center on the README page

except that those examples are to simple. for something that transpiles to sh i would like to use it to write better shell scripts. so i'd like to see examples that resemble actual shell scripts in that they call lots of external commands, do file operations, terminal interaction and other things commonly done with sh.

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Re:A statically typed scripting language that transpiles to ... by smoe on Friday March 25, 2022 @04:18PM (#30806636)

Felt the same. Most complete example seems to be the installer for the language which is written in it. This covers some of the things you mentioned

https://github.com/cotowali/konryu/blob/main/konryu.li

and the generated shell script

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cotowali/konryu/dist/konry...

There is also the website, heavily under construction, but has some more documentation on the language than the readme

https://cotowali.org/

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Re:A statically typed scripting language that transpiles to ... by remram on Friday March 25, 2022 @08:15PM (#30808183)

So this 366-line script compiles into 588 lines of shell, 2,229 lines if we count the parts that seem to come from the imported modules. That includes a lot of auto-generated names like `_cotowali_tmp_166` or `first8b04d5e3775d298e78455efc5ca404d5` and replacements for built-in shell functions like `eprintln` or `rm_r`. In fact that script seems to use `eprint`, `eprintln`, `println`, `print`, AND `echo` which seems a little much.

It would have been nice to see something more transparent, e.g. a type-checked extension to shell, like TypeScript is for JavaScript. Something to make it easier to write correct shell scripts, but would generate understandable, editable shell scripts.

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