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.