Amber the programming language compiled to Bash/Ksh/Zsh

This looks great. We have a lot of bash tools because it's the only stable interpreter that we have readily available on all our systems. But bash is a pain to write so this might actually make things easier.

Any language is a shell script if you're brave enough: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shebang_%28Unix%29

> Typescript to bash

Literally the worst of both worlds.

unclear use case imo - this sacrifices the ergonomics of actual bash scripting, and hides it behind another language

If your script is complex enough to need a higher level language you might as well just switch to python

Just wanted to say that I think you did a great job with your examples showing why someone might be interested in this language.

Much needed. I have hard time understanding bash.

Another alternative for writing Bash is Babashka, which is a Clojure dialect.

Thank you, but... why not just write in Bash, or the shell you prefer? Why learn a yet another opinionated wrapper?

Yes, Bash or any shell is a very complex and utterly environment dependent language to approach with all due care for security and compatibility, yet hence the lack of wrapper that may not even be aware of these crucial cases at all.

In a world where AI can generate any code for any environment, is there a need for another language?

On the other hand, we're at a point for a binary language (or standard / framework) that one AI/LLM creates and another one validates.

What are we missing?