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Why would someone write a bootstrapping rust compiler in C++ when you can just compile the rust to C using a proper llvm backend?
Bootstrapping on platforms where llvm isn't supported?
As someone that writes a lot in Rust, I have a longstanding dream to make a compiler for a subset of the language, since I don’t use all features of Rust and my hope is that this way I could have fast debug builds (in terms of compilation time) while I develop, with simplified borrow checker and so on. So then I can iterate faster. That’s one of my dreams. But I have not had time to even look at it yet, as the other…
In the perf site you can see some examples: https://perf.rust-lang.org/
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Bootstrapping on platforms where llvm isn't supported?
I don't see why you would want to do that as you can always ssh into a system where llvm is supported, then compile to C, copy the C sources back to your system and compile rustc using a C compiler.
What kind of language ideas do you folks have? What would your fizzbuzz look like? I'm not sure I've ever seen a more readable compact fizzbuzz than this version in coffeescript ['fizz' unless i%3] + ['buzz' unless i%5] or i for i in [1..100]
Another "crazy" idea: I'd like the compiler to reformat code to match strict style conventions. Why? Sometimes there's no "right" style. Sometimes novices need training wheels. In the long run, style doesn't matter, but in big projects code is easier to read when style is consistent. It's also easier to onboard when code follows industry-standard styles. Would it be better when a language gently pushes everyone to th…
As someone that writes a lot in Rust, I have a longstanding dream to make a compiler for a subset of the language, since I don’t use all features of Rust and my hope is that this way I could have fast debug builds (in terms of compilation time) while I develop, with simplified borrow checker and so on. So then I can iterate faster. That’s one of my dreams. But I have not had time to even look at it yet, as the other…
What kind of language ideas do you folks have? What would your fizzbuzz look like? I'm not sure I've ever seen a more readable compact fizzbuzz than this version in coffeescript ['fizz' unless i%3] + ['buzz' unless i%5] or i for i in [1..100]
The usage of `unless` strikes me as unmaintainable and "smart", not in a good way tbh. The types are all other the places, too. What is it even doing exactly? Appending a string to a null value..?
All that said I've never been a fan of dynamically typed languages myself. Fast to make things in but difficult to reason about later.
What kind of language ideas do you folks have? What would your fizzbuzz look like? I'm not sure I've ever seen a more readable compact fizzbuzz than this version in coffeescript ['fizz' unless i%3] + ['buzz' unless i%5] or i for i in [1..100]
1. That would be telling.
2. Apparently there's going to be a theme? So that might make whatever wacky language I've been mulling a bad fit. I'm rather curious about how that will play out
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Bootstrapping on platforms where llvm isn't supported?
I don't see why you would want to do that as you can always ssh into a system where llvm is supported, then compile to C, copy the C sources back to your system and compile rustc using a C compiler.
As someone that writes a lot in Rust, I have a longstanding dream to make a compiler for a subset of the language, since I don’t use all features of Rust and my hope is that this way I could have fast debug builds (in terms of compilation time) while I develop, with simplified borrow checker and so on. So then I can iterate faster. That’s one of my dreams. But I have not had time to even look at it yet, as the other…
As someone that writes a lot in Rust, I have a longstanding dream to make a compiler for a subset of the language, since I don’t use all features of Rust and my hope is that this way I could have fast debug builds (in terms of compilation time) while I develop, with simplified borrow checker and so on. So then I can iterate faster. That’s one of my dreams. But I have not had time to even look at it yet, as the other…
Any ideas on how one can simplify the borrow checker?