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chriswailes / RLTK

The Ruby Language Toolkit
http://chriswailes.github.io/RLTK/
University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
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Project Activity? #26

Closed jfredett closed 11 years ago

jfredett commented 11 years ago

I'm curious about using RLTK for some experiments regarding converting an existing DSL into something which can be executed natively, as well as some general experimenting with compiler-writing, because compilers are awesome.

However, it appears that the last commit is close to six months old, and there are no apparent branches that have more recent work. Is RLTK abandoned/moved, or is it just reached a point of stability.

Thanks, RLTK looks like a great project, and I'm really hoping to use it, but I don't want to hang on something that isn't being maintained.

chriswailes commented 11 years ago

I haven't abandoned the project, I just haven't had a lot of time to work on it lately. The lexer and parser generating aspects of the project are stable at this point. I have some features that I want to add to them, but that will be several releases down the road and won't change their main usage.

The LLVM code gen bindings currently works... for LLVM 3.0. In particular, the Contractor class is very nice. I have plans to update the bindings to 3.4 in the next month or so, I just need to tear myself away from my Steam Summer Sale games. Knowing that someone is interested in the project might be exactly the motivation I need.

jfredett commented 11 years ago

Excellent! I'm digging into LLVM and RLTK looks like a really awesome tool. I too know the draw of the Summer Sale, and I imagine my use of RLTK will be intermittent but continuing as I find myself drawn off to other things (mostly games... Protip: Don't play Crusader Kings II if you ever want to see the sun again). I'm really interested in digging in, hopefully I can find places to contribute back.

Big kudos on the tool, I look forward to using it.

chriswailes commented 11 years ago

I certainly like it :-) I'm also very interested in how people are using it. As your project progresses let me know if any of the documentation is unclear, if a function doesn't behave the way you expect it to, or there is a feature you would REALLY like.

If you are interested in helping out, take a look at the TODO file. I need to go home and push a bit of work I've done, but I plan on releasing the last version to support Ruby 1.8.7 sometime soon (hopefully tonight).

One of the reasons I haven't done RLTK work in a while is I've been working on another project: Filigree. I only have a couple more things to add to that, then I'll release it and make RLTK depend on it, that way I don't have as many utility files floating around the project.

Feel free to contact me about RLTK using email. You can find my address in the AUTHORS file.