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> Why doesn’t Amber have equivalent issues? Such as depending on a specific version of bash, or specific executables to be installed. Because it's easy (for mo
by Sebb767 2y ago
> Why doesn’t Amber have equivalent issues? Such as depending on a specific version of bash, or specific executables to be installed.
Because it's easy (for most cases) to write backwards-compatible or portable shell scripts and, since Amber is compiled, it can simply generate backwards-compatible code.
> That would cut against the idea that bash can target more devices than Python, which runs natively on all platforms.
The point is that Bash is more ubiquitously available, which is important if you write something like an install script.
- fluidcruft 2y agoOnly the ancient GPLv2 bash is actually ubiquitous and you might as well just target POSIX's sh if that's the argument.