On: Show HN: A complete Bash parser in JavaScript transpiled from Go

[ddtaylor]

Not that it's useful or desired, but could one transpile it into pure bash as well? It's Turing complete isn't it?

[mvdan → ddtaylor]

I'm not sure I understand what you're saying. If there was a Go->Bash transpiler (or a JS->Bash one), yes, we would theoretically end up with a Bash parser and interpreter in Bash.

I imagine it would be quite the monster, though.

[solarkraft → mvdan]

Luckily the current creation isn't already one.

[mvdan → solarkraft]

I'm going to go on assuming that you're not being sarcastic :)

As I mentioned in another comment, once Go's wasm support is shipped and stable, I hope to make the JS package smaller and better. Until then, this is the best I can do without manually rewriting the Go code in JS.