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		snickerer on May 22, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Amber: Programming language compiled to Bash I totally understand the drive to a more modern shell language. But why translate Amber into bash, why not execute it directly? Why there isn't an Ambersh? We got some great BASH alternatives: Zsh, Fish, Elvish, Nushell, Xonsh. I did not evaluate them all, but if Amber is even better, why not have Ambersh? Can somebody please explain?

bar000n on May 22, 2024 [–]

maybe you want to run scripts on machines where you can't install everything you want (alternative shells)

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