On Tuesday, 17 June 2014 at 09:24:32 UTC, Araq wrote:
What's the point? Nimrod already exists and answers most of your
questions. If only you would know how to ask...
If you know the answers then I am an eager listener. Go ahead! :-)
But isn't Nimrod a source-2-source compiler/translator?
In order to get efficient heap, GC, exception handling etc you
need to go all the way down to exploiting the underlying hardware
and memory layout on modern 64-bit architectures and leave some
of the C-cruft behind. It basically requires runtime and
backend-level changes.
You can get there by experimenting with one feature at the time,
but if you add all features at once you lock yourself into a
corner, IMO. So having a minimal and clean C-ish base as a
starting point would be valuable.
