gecko VS molten

Hey guys,

I've been working on a Rust-like programming language written in Rust. I've worked on this compiler for the past months, and it's coming along very well.

The language features closures, higher-order function support, recursion, among other interesting things.

Here's the GitHub link, take a look!: https://github.com/geckolang/gecko

Also, come hang out on the official Discord server, I'm very interested on the compiler-design topic and can help you out if you have any questions about the project or designing your own compiler!

https://discord.gg/H3eMUXp

I second looking at the rust compiler. It splits various AST elements into a struct and enum, where the enum is a 'Kind' (eg. Expr for struct which contains an ExprKind enum). That allows things like line numbers and other common data to be easily fetched from the struct and variant-specific values can be stored in the enum, which can be pattern matched. I did a similar thing in a compiler I made a while ago here https://github.com/transistorfet/molten/blob/main/src/analysis/hir.rs

I managed to write an ocaml-like language compiler in Rust using llvm-sys (which uses the LLVM C API) without too much trouble. It may not be the fastest but it's fairly feature cobplete. The code is at https://github.com/transistorfet/molten