For those curious like myself
What is Amber?
Amber is a programming language compiled into Bash Script. It was designed with a modern syntax, safety features, type safety and practical functionalities that Bash could not offer.
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A language compiled to Bash.
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A modern, type-safe programming language that catches bugs and errors at compile time.
I'm glad this is still alive. It's a good idea. I keep thinking about doing the same for TCL.
I do wonder if Bash is perhaps just a bit too insane to make this really feasible though.
Reversed range support
This is a misfeature.
I get that calling command line tools is a bit clunky, but python is always my go-to when shell scripting gets too painful
It's bash, bash is easy now if you want to impress me make it compile into power shell.
that is like asking someone to write x86 to arm instructions (i gave a instruction set related example to someone else, so was in the mood, no other reason to pick architectures)