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New Backends #8

Open paf31 opened 8 years ago

paf31 commented 8 years ago

Possible directions:

Survey the existing work on multiple backends (pure11, pure14, truffled-purescript, Lua, etc.)
Extend/define appropriate ASTs to extract common features used during code generation
Implement a new code generator or port an existing one to use your new machinery.
Port some core libraries to a new backend, or implement a killer application for a new backend.

paf31 commented 8 years ago

I am interested in mentoring this project.

izgzhen commented 8 years ago

I am interested to be a student in this project.

notcome commented 8 years ago

I am interested in this project as a student.

gbaz commented 8 years ago

idk where the current place is to track "potential backend ideas" but it seems that PS could fill nicely the "actually haskell-like" hole in the JVM ecosystem too, tho it would be significantly more work than e.g. a lua one.

paf31 commented 8 years ago

There has been some discussion of a JVM backend. truffled-purescript was one approach, but development seems to have been stopped. A straight Java code generator might be a simpler way to get started.

andyarvanitis commented 8 years ago

@gbaz @paf31 As has been discussed before, that's how Frege does it, and could suit us well too.

balajirrao commented 8 years ago

Does anyone know if there has been any progress on the Java backend ?

paf31 commented 8 years ago

None that I know of, but the new --dump-corefn option in 0.10 should make it quite a bit easier.

balajirrao commented 8 years ago

That's great. I'll take a look.

epost commented 7 years ago

Any plans for the core imperative representation that I think @garyb was working on? Seems like that could make it ridiculously easy to write new backends.