Re:Amber – the programming language compiled to Bash
by notdefio on Wednesday May 22, 2024 @11:28AM
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It's not compiled in the way that C is compiled. Transpiled would be a better term (though there are debates on where the line is).
Amber code gets turned into bash code, and run by a bash interpreter. So at best Amber's performance will match Bash's performance.
I've seen people say bash is faster than PowerShell, but I don't have benchmarks to back it up. Even so, I wouldn't recommend using it for performance intensive tasks such as writing a web server.
The great advantage I see for Amber is being able to write scripts in a sane language (bash is not enjoyable to write), and have those scripts be able to run anywhere that Bash is installed.
Amber code gets turned into bash code, and run by a bash interpreter. So at best Amber's performance will match Bash's performance.
I've seen people say bash is faster than PowerShell, but I don't have benchmarks to back it up. Even so, I wouldn't recommend using it for performance intensive tasks such as writing a web server.
The great advantage I see for Amber is being able to write scripts in a sane language (bash is not enjoyable to write), and have those scripts be able to run anywhere that Bash is installed.