Easily write Bash with a transpiler
FOSDEM 2026/Schedule/Events//dev/random/Amber Lang – Easily write Bash with a transpiler Amber Lang – Easily write Bash with a transpiler Track: /dev/random Room: H.2215 (Ferrer) Day: Sunday Start (UTC+1): 15:00 End (UTC+1): 15:15 Room livestream: h2215 Chat: Join the conversation! Amber is an experimental programming language that transpiles to Bash, designed to make shell scripting more readable, safer, and easier to maintain. While Bash is ubiquitous, its syntax and error-prone patterns often slow down development, especially for complex scripts. Amber addresses these issues by offering a clearer syntax, basic typing, structured control flow, and a growing standard library, while still producing compatible Bash code (3.2–5.3). Written in Rust and supported by…
