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A comment on Amber the programming language compiled to Bash/Ksh/Zsh.

Re:Amber the programming language compiled to Bash/Ksh/Zsh by zombiefromfo on Sunday July 12, 2026 @08:21AM (#48880586)
First of it's not compiled, it's transpiled

Second, just why?

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Re:Amber the programming language compiled to Bash/Ksh/Zsh by mte90 on Monday July 13, 2026 @03:32AM (#48889123)
Hi, I am one of the project maintainers :-)

As I said in other similar answers, there are some context where you can't use other languages or install packages but bash is everywhere (as example).

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