WIP: Translator to rust

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It's like Forth but in Python

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WIP: Translator to rust #122

Open mjdr opened 2 years ago

mjdr commented 2 years ago

Translate porth to rust. That allow for more optimal assembly generation. And it's fun. Wrote in same style as compiler and simulator, so its can be ported to porth (theoretically)

TODO

[ ] Add translate subcommand in help
[x] Fix infinite loop in examples/cat.porth
[x] Add new operands, intrinsics
[ ] Drop all dependencies with #![no_std] #![no_main]
[ ] porth.porth is hanging if sub-command provided

zrthxn commented 2 years ago

Correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't this sort of go against the language being self-hosted? If the python compiler generates Rust and then rustc generates assembly... doesn't this make the language not self-hosted?

mjdr commented 2 years ago

no, right now (python) -> asm -> (nasm) -> binary my translator (python) -> rust -> (rustc) -> binary after self hosted (porth) -> asm -> (nasm) -> binary (porth) -> rust -> (rustc) -> binary

mjdr commented 2 years ago

And it's not simulator, but source code generator