Orbit a systems level programming language that compiles .sh to LLVM

In plain words

Orbit is a systems-level programming language that translates shell scripts into LLVM intermediate representation, enabling lower-level optimization and compilation. It targets developers who want to write shell-like code with the performance characteristics of systems languages. The tool bridges shell scripting and compiled languages by converting .sh files to LLVM, allowing access to better performance and static analysis than traditional shell execution.

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Spaceship is a high-performance systems automation language designed to replace legacy shell scripting. It features a strict, Rust-inspired syntax, a powerful fixed-width type system, and a novel JIT (Just-In-Time) compilation model for POSIX commands, all built on top of LLVM. Spaceship uses a strict, fixed-width type system. There is no type inference; all types must be explicitly declared. Spaceship uses an explicit error handling mechanism that maps directly to POSIX exit codes and errno . Any function that can fail must declare its return type with a ! prefix, indicating that it returns an error contract. check { // Code that might fail let fd : i32 = readFile ( "my_file.txt" ) ; }…from github.com

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