Is the code available publically? Would be cool to see! :) On Monday, May 23, 2016 at 1:22:31 AM UTC-4, Daniel Azuma wrote: > > Hi all, > > I've been working off and on for a few months on an Erlang->Elixir > transpiler (mostly as an exercise for myself to learn Erlang semantics). I > recently had the idea of applying it to the Erlang code in the Elixir core, > creating a version of the Elixir compiler written completely in Elixir. > Long story short, there are some caveats in the build process and a few > bugs in the transpiler to work around, but today I finally got a proof of > concept working and passing the tests. > > So I was wondering whether the possibility of self-hosting the Elixir > compiler had been discussed before. My initial thoughts were that it's > often interesting to self-host; however, in this case all the core code > would have to remain written in a "bootstrap" style of Elixir without > access to the standard library, which might be awkward. But I was curious > what else might have been discussed and what people's thoughts were. > > Thanks, > Daniel > >
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