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Home of the ABS programming language: the joy of shell scripting.

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Platform Support

bammi opened this issue · comments

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I just discovered abs-lang and am enthusiastic about the tenants. I looked through all the docs and cannot figure platforms that are supported, in particular Windows or plans for Windows. The only reference i can find to platform agnostic approach is the justification for using go lang.
Support for Windows is important because there is crying need for a competent scripting language in windows (cmd and MS Power Shell are both embarrassments). I currently use Cygwin Bash to write portable scripts across platforms that i have to support, and i am quite comfortable with .sh but clearly see the need for abs

I am willing to give abs a serious try only if it truly multi platform and not unix-like only.

commented

Windows should be supported -- you can test one of the releases here.

https://github.com/abs-lang/abs/releases/download/2.2.1/abs-windows-386.exe
https://github.com/abs-lang/abs/releases/download/2.2.1/abs-windows-amd64.exe

Caveat: one of ABS' most powerful features (system commands) works a bit differently on windows (we use cmd.exe vs bash -- but you could use bash by running ABS through the WSL).

Let me know if this doesn't answer your question!