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Re: Amber: Programming language compiled to Bash

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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

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.

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