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A graph of programming languages connected through compilers
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#22This is really neat. I noticed that although it does have Phalanger for PHP, it's missing PeachPie: https://www.peachpie.io/.
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#23So, you can apparently compile C++ to LLVM-IR, then to Javascript, then to Python and then to C++ (you can do similar feat with C). Wonder if there is a fix point, or it diverges.
I looked at js2py (the most surprising-to-me link in that chain) the code it generates already kind of explodes on loc. I think it's probably very unlikely there is a fixed point instead of an exponential explosion of your program as you run it through the chain.
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#24Nice visualization, it can be improved though. There are Java compilers directly to native code though, the Oracle JVM isn't the only path.
According to this graph one could actually get from Java to Objective-C to LLVM-IR to Machine Code... Or with LLVM-IR to C in the last step you could get from Java to C...
One problem with this graph is that not all links actually support the full language. J2objc actually places constraints on your code so in some sense it's really compiling some (large) subsets of Java.
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#25Well with all three of Haskell, CIL and C# (through D) compiling to machine code, LLVM IR and Javascript it looks like the graph is no longer planar.
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#2644 languages
42 languages compile to Machine Code
Wait, what? There are 2 languages that don't compile to Machine Code? Which ones are those, and how is it even possible?
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#2744 languages 42 languages compile to Machine Code Wait, what? There are 2 languages that don't compile to Machine Code? Which ones are those, and how is it even possible?
There's ActionScript, which can only be interpreted.
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#2844 languages 42 languages compile to Machine Code Wait, what? There are 2 languages that don't compile to Machine Code? Which ones are those, and how is it even possible?
Does it count interpreters?
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#29Did Javascript become the babelfish of all languages?
It makes a lot more sense when you see Javascript as "machine code" for browsers.
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#30Where is Smalltalk ?