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Amber - the programming language compiled to Bash
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this post was submitted on 21 May 2024
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I see, it's a universal solution. But the produced code is not optimal in this case. I believe the Amber code SHOULD analyze it and decide if a more direct and simple code generation for Bash is possible. That is what I would expect from a compilers work. Otherwise the generated code becomes write only, not read only.
Compiled code is already effectively write-only. But I can imagine there being some efficiency gains in not always shelling out for arithmetic, so possibly that's a future improvement for the project.
That said, my reaction to this project overall is to wonder whether there are really very many situations in which it's more convenient to run a compiled Bash script than to run a compiled binary. I suppose the Bash has the advantage of being truly "compile once, run anywhere".