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Scala on LLVM

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Re: Scala on LLVM

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Post by terhechte »

Note: It seems the author hasn't had time working on this project for the last couple of months. Still, I think it might be interesting for others to know about this project, maybe someone wants to play around with this.

Re: Scala on LLVM

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Post by doogle88 »

terhechte wrote: post #2

Note: It seems the author hasn't had time working on this project for the last couple of months. Still, I think it might be interesting for others to know about this project, maybe someone wants to play around with this.

Do you know how complete this is at the moment?

Re: Scala on LLVM

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Post by terhechte »

doogle88 wrote: post #3
terhechte wrote: post #2

Note: It seems the author hasn't had time working on this project for the last couple of months. Still, I think it might be interesting for others to know about this project, maybe someone wants to play around with this.

Do you know how complete this is at the moment?

I haven't tried it myself yet, but I really wish that somebody would continue working on this as I think it is an awesome project. My CS knowledge is not deep enough to work on this myself, I fear. The author wrote this about the project in February (on the mailing list):

"So, it's not dead but there's (currently) noone working on it besides me and my time for it is very limited (to barely more than zero over the last year). I'm hopeful that I'll be able to find more time, hopefully around summer. That said, if anyone is interested in working on it, I'm more than happy to have the help. I do promise to make some time to work with potential contributors, but as you can see my latency can be pretty bad at times. "

And last year in June he wrote this: "Also, most any normal scala program will not work since many parts of the standard library are not compatible yet with LLVM (because of java library dependencies)."

Which probably still stands as there's no way to easily convert the java library to Scala and then to llvm.

Re: Scala on LLVM

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Post by yareally »

terhechte wrote: post #7
doogle88 wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you know how complete this is at the moment?

I haven't tried it myself yet, but I really wish that somebody would continue working on this as I think it is an awesome project. My CS knowledge is not deep enough to work on this myself, I fear. The author wrote this about the project in February (on the mailing list): "So, it's not dead but there's (currently) noone working on it besides me and my time for it is very limited (to barely more than zero over the las…

There is a way to convert Java straight to LLVM. I would guess the developer is already aware of that though

https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/java/trunk/docs/java-front...

Re: Scala on LLVM

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Post by est »

eru wrote: post #5
est wrote: post #4

This project is so cool, only Elixir on Xen could be just as cool.

There's OCaml on Xen ( http://www.xenproject.org/developers/teams/mirage-os.html ).

Holycrap, exokernel is the most brilliant idea I've heard today. I don't have to mess with sk_buffer anymore!

Re: Scala on LLVM

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Post by octo_t »

doogle88 wrote: post #3
terhechte wrote: post #2

Note: It seems the author hasn't had time working on this project for the last couple of months. Still, I think it might be interesting for others to know about this project, maybe someone wants to play around with this.

Do you know how complete this is at the moment?

Theres a talk from ScalaDays last year (I think) where the answer is basically "its not"
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