edsl VS Cwerg

I'm taking a brief detour from working on my actual language to work on some underlying theory. My language (Sligh) is based on informal certifying compilation, i.e. the compiler generates a test checking for correctness of the compiled program instead of a proof. Because I'm mostly interested in generating code for full-stack web applications, I think optimization is actually essential for the practicality of this approach, otherwise the certificate test will be much less effective.

So, full compilation of the implementation is out in my mind, and the next best thing is at least deriving the implementation from the model so you can leverage the logic you've already defined. That's where metaprogramming comes in, and that's what I'm playing around with here.

Perhaps these have already been dealt with and I'm missing critical information. If so, my apologies. Great work, in any case.

[1] https://github.com/robertmuth/Cwerg/tree/master/FrontEnd#dis...

Cwerg has backend that can be used as JIT and is written with readability in mind. Additional documentation can be found here: https://github.com/robertmuth/Cwerg/tree/master/Docs

I defined a basic ISA-like IR for Cwerg. It has unlimited registers and no constraints on immediates.

entire compiler front end ast nodes

I was also going down the path of bike shedding concrete syntax for my language Cwerg before pulling the plug on that effort and just using s-exprs. I managed to make the s-expr quite succinct by carefully choosing the order of arguments so I can omit optional ones. Also very helpful was to use square brackets for list, e.g. (call fun-name [arg1 arg2]). This simplifies parsing a little bit and is easier on the eye. Here are some Code Examples

I am iterating over the languages features for Cwerg's Frontend which aims to be a low level language with about the complexity of C but with some of the comforts of modern languages. I am especially happy with the choice of adding sum types. Relative to C the current feature set looks like this: Removed: * arrays decay to pointers * bitfields * separate compilation (more of a backend issue) * pre-processor * varargs * implcit type conversions * (untagged) unions * ++/-- * comma operator * implicitly nullable pointers * goto