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Has anyone tried Amber for writing bash scripts? Would you recommend it?
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Compile-to-Bash is a dead-end goal IMO. Just write it in Python or Rust and it'll be even more portable.
That's supposed to be an improvement?
One annoyance about Python is that I also have a Mac. By default, it comes with no Python. If you install XCode, you get Python 3.9. And of course you can get the latest version from Homebrew.
Granted, I don't think Amber would help much in this situation either. macOS comes with bash 3.2 and Amber probably targets a newer version that that. So either way I would need to homebrew install newer versions.
Write in rust then. Binaries are statically compiled and will even work on windows depending on the processes you call.