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Has anyone tried Amber for writing bash scripts? Would you recommend it?
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I like the idea as BASH is available everywhere but has terrible gotchas in its syntax plus at times is unreadable.
When I did some moderately complicated amber scripts I hit bugs. Also still some important features are missing.
So I'm keeping an eye on it but it's definately not ready for anything serious yet.
I am also watching https://oils.pub/ and hoping one or both of these projects succeed.