what would be the most fun language to write random parts of a compiler in
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my first thoughts are:
• Rust
• ML
• Idris 2
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please share your thoughts i saw some of my compiler-bits-in-OCaml screenshots today and wanted to do more of that again
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is this like, one compiler with individual bits in all of those languages? or is it boring
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hm i feel like FFI would suck and serializing a bunch of formats would mean i would have to write boring parts (parsers) a lot
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Maybe? unless you just pass JSON blobs back and forth and pick libraries that make that kinda thing magic
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using an external library in OCaml or Idris sounds like suffering (I have done the former before, I just hate setting up build systems and packages. this is why rust is so appealing)
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Yeah despite some of the pain and friction that I get using Rust, having cargo makes up for it greatly. Nice to make a pretty error reporting library then have a bunch of people be able to use it. 😍
I always seem to break things whenever I try using opam 😢
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