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Amber - the programming language compiled to Bash (amber-lang.com)
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[โ€“] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

let

[โ€“] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

What are you talking about?

[โ€“] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The Javascript style syntax

[โ€“] AdamBomb@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 4 months ago

let is also used to declare values in better languages than JavaScript, such as Haskell and ML family languages like OCaml and F#

[โ€“] moreeni@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

About the let keyword, which is used to declare a variable.

[โ€“] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I thought so, but why do they object? Do they want Bash's error-prone implicit variable declaration?

[โ€“] moreeni@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago

They, most probably, just didn't like the name.