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  • BatmanAoD@programming.dev
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    5 months ago

    A language being compiled should be able to support higher-level language concepts than what the target supports natively. That’s how compiling works in the first place.

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      5 months ago

      That depends on how readable you want the output to be. It’s already pretty bad on that front. If you start supporting arbitrary features it’s going to end up as a bytecode interpreter. Which would be pretty cool too tbf! Has anyone written a WASM runtime in bash? 😄

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          Yeah definitely! I wouldn’t hold your breath though. Especially as that’s pretty much an escape route from POSIX. I doubt they’d be too keen to lose power.