On 20/02/18 07:21, Neil Van Dyke wrote: > If someone is looking for a challenging and interesting `#lang` project... > > Build a `#lang rust`. https://www.rust-lang.org/ >
+1 > You might first implement mapping the non-checking semantics to Racket > code (so that you can run valid Rust programs), and then later try to > implement all the checking (for detecting invalid Rust programs). > > Your big test would be bootstrapping the real Rust compiler. (You use > your Racket-based Rust language implementation to run the real Rust > compiler, to have the real compiler compile itself.) > This would be awesome but certainly a multi-year project for a single person I think. Also, there might be some trouble on understanding the rust grammar. I have in the past toyed with the idea of building a rust gcc frontend (previous attempts failed) but due to the lack of a formal grammar I gave up. Things might have changed since mid-2017 but I doubt it. One alternative to proceed without a formal grammar would be maybe to somehow use libparse from the rust project to parse the code and then use FFI to bring the structures into Racket. However, as a C/C++ replacement I love what Rust stands for so +1 (again!) for this project. -- Paulo Matos -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
