Amber
Modern, type-safe language that compiles to shell
Amber is a programming language that compiles to Bash, designed for writing automation scripts while providing modern syntax, type safety, a bundled standard library and runtime safety guardrails. This grant will advance Amber by introducing new object-oriented data structures, including dictionaries, enums, and user defined structures with the ability to declare methods. It will also introduce an entirely new syntax for defining portable, version-aware interfaces to external commands, a new POSIX-sh compilation target, support for pipelines, improved interoperability with target shell code and numerous small language improvements.
- The project's own website: https://amber-lang.com
This project was funded through the NGI0 Commons Fund, a fund established by NLnet with financial support from the European Commission's Next Generation Internet programme, under the aegis of DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology under grant agreement No 101135429. Additional funding is made available by the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI).
