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    5 months ago

    Does Bash support those? I think the idea is that it’s basically Bash, as if written by a sane person. So it supports the same features as Bash but without the army of footguns.

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      5 months ago

      A language being compiled should be able to support higher-level language concepts than what the target supports natively. That’s how compiling works in the first place.

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        5 months ago

        That depends on how readable you want the output to be. It’s already pretty bad on that front. If you start supporting arbitrary features it’s going to end up as a bytecode interpreter. Which would be pretty cool too tbf! Has anyone written a WASM runtime in bash? 😄

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            5 months ago

            Yeah definitely! I wouldn’t hold your breath though. Especially as that’s pretty much an escape route from POSIX. I doubt they’d be too keen to lose power.