On Sunday, 24 October 2021 at 10:13:14 UTC, Tero Hänninen wrote:
Hello,
decided I'd post about my primarily D-influenced programming
language here.
Nice work.
It's data oriented, compact and despite D's influence, has a
very different personality with no emphasis on metaprogramming
– albeit having simple polymorphism and even compile time
execution. Stability is something I care about deeply so you
can expect few to no deprecations over time after some initial
instability perhaps.
Feature set is not large and I'm not willing to add a whole lot
of "cool" convenience features besides what there already is,
and there is no support for either OO or functional style
programming. However, I'm rather open to adding features that
unlock great performance benefits, such as intrinsics support.
Support for LLVM intrinsics should be indeed of a great value
added.
That could work by adding a new attribute with a string exp to
recognize it.
without that the oprations that are done in the FPU can only be
based on assembly and less inlinable.
The module system is similar to Rust and works nicely with
conditional compilation in that you can exclude entire modules
and directories and, unlike in Rust, use conditional symbols
that are automatically visible to all submodules.
The compiler frontend is about 34k lines of code, self hosting
and very fast. LLVM is the backend, but with the MIR used in
the compiler, it's fairly straight forward to bolt on other
backends.
Congrats for reaching self-hosting.
Once thing I notice is that there does not seem to be a way to
generate debug info. You really should support them (LLVM C api
has a whole header with everything you need to achieve that),
because not only this allows to debug the compiler more easily
but also can be used to easily instrument code in a generic way.
With debug info, you can of course debug but also profile
(valgrind --tool=calgrind), find leaks (valgrind), cover (kcov),
etc.
Compiler source code:
https://github.com/tjhann/gordon
Website:
https://tjhann.github.io/gordon-web/
I don't know how to make websites... and I want a much lighter
background actually.
Take a look! :)
