News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Amber – the programming language compiled to Bash.

Re:Amber – the programming language compiled to Bash by burky on Tuesday May 21, 2024 @07:54PM (#40435728)
This looks similar to a tool I discovered a while back called Batsh. But Amber looks a lot more polished and has some nice safety about it.

https://github.com/batsh-dev-team/Batsh

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Amber – the programming language compiled to Bash by mrbluecoat on Tuesday May 21, 2024 @09:44PM (#40436506)
Both tools look useful (although I lean toward Amber's ECMAscript syntax). I liked this comment from batsh:

> Both Bash and Batch are messy to read and tricky to write due to historical reasons. You have to spend a lot of time learning either of them and write platform-dependent code for each operating system. I have wasted lots of time in my life struggling with bizarre syntaxes and unreasonable behaviors of them, and do not want to waste any more.

[ Parent | on HN ]