llvm dev - Jun 2015 - [LLVMdev] Code-generation: lang=>JSON, JSON=>lang and merging into lang

Considering engineering my own code-generator. If I do go ahead, will
open-source the end result.

Needs to read [parse] one language, and output JSON (conformant to a
specific JSON-schema).

Then needs to read JSON, and reproduce the code in that language, and
[possibly] merge the generated code with existing code.

Languages I'm looking to support are all rather popular (Python, Go, Rust,
JavaScript).

Any pointers—e.g.: specific LLVM libraries and sub-projects to use—would be
appreciated.

Thanks
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> reproduce the code in that language
Is the intention to exactly reproduce the original source code? Or
some code that's functionally equivalent?

On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 8:05 AM, Alec Taylor <alec.taylor6 at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Considering engineering my own code-generator. If I do go ahead, will
> open-source the end result.
>
> Needs to read [parse] one language, and output JSON (conformant to a
> specific JSON-schema).
>
> Then needs to read JSON, and reproduce the code in that language, and
> [possibly] merge the generated code with existing code.
>
> Languages I'm looking to support are all rather popular (Python, Go,
Rust,
> JavaScript).
>
> Any pointers—e.g.: specific LLVM libraries and sub-projects to use—would be
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
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Possibly protobuf or capn proto would be much more clean alternatives to
json. I was working with interpreting instruction semantics a while back,
and you shouldn't have to write a parser to get the data structure back
into coherent form, you can get what you want automatically and have the
structure isolated into a common schema.

On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 9:22 AM, Stephen Cross <scross at scross.co.uk>
wrote:
> > reproduce the code in that language
>
> Is the intention to exactly reproduce the original source code? Or
> some code that's functionally equivalent?
>
> On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 8:05 AM, Alec Taylor <alec.taylor6 at
gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Considering engineering my own code-generator. If I do go ahead, will
> > open-source the end result.
> >
> > Needs to read [parse] one language, and output JSON (conformant to a
> > specific JSON-schema).
> >
> > Then needs to read JSON, and reproduce the code in that language, and
> > [possibly] merge the generated code with existing code.
> >
> > Languages I'm looking to support are all rather popular (Python,
Go,
> Rust,
> > JavaScript).
> >
> > Any pointers—e.g.: specific LLVM libraries and sub-projects to
use—would
> be
> > appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > LLVM Developers mailing list
> > LLVMdev at cs.uiuc.edu         http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu
> > http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvmdev
> >
>
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