>The WHY is pretty obvious: I want to show that the portable shell is not a toy.
What does that mean? You sat down with the goal of showing that a decades old scripting environment can be used for large projects in production, with all its obscure hacks? I'd say it's more a novelty project made for the fun of it - and that's fine, it's a cool project.
It would be pretty interesting to read a blog post about the making-of: How to write a compiler in portable shell, what parts could be automated and where LLM-coding fell short, what rare tricks were applied, etc...
What does that mean? You sat down with the goal of showing that a decades old scripting environment can be used for large projects in production, with all its obscure hacks? I'd say it's more a novelty project made for the fun of it - and that's fine, it's a cool project.
It would be pretty interesting to read a blog post about the making-of: How to write a compiler in portable shell, what parts could be automated and where LLM-coding fell short, what rare tricks were applied, etc...