langs-in-rust
A list of programming languages implemented in Rust, for inspiration. (by alilleybrinker)
inkwell
It's a New Kind of Wrapper for Exposing LLVM (Safely) (by TheDan64)
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The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
langs-in-rust
Posts with mentions or reviews of langs-in-rust.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-07.
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Gleam
Gleam is written in Rust and is a nice example (besides Rust itself) of what it looks like to write a language in Rust. By my own tracking (https://github.com/alilleybrinker/langs-in-rust) Gleam is one of the most popular languages written in Rust and is one of the few top languages in that list which isn't a reimplementation of an existing language!
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Rust is ugly, doesn’t even let you write simple data structures, unsafe rust is not even defined, makes the simplest things so hard to write and did I mention it’s ugly?
Ah yes, std, that famous crate that is unusable for systems programming. God forbid anyone do any "systems" programming that uses std.
- The impossible case of pitching rust in a web dev shop
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Scripting language that compiles to Rust?
A scripting language with an interpreter written in rust? Lua doesn't compile to C. The Lua interpreter is written in C and can inter-operate with it. Maybe look here: https://github.com/alilleybrinker/langs-in-rust
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Hey Rustaceans! Got a question? Ask here! (29/2022)!
There are in fact! If I remember correctly, Gluon and Gleam are both done via Combinators. You can probably find many more here
- Rock v0.2.1, a little native toy language I've made with Rust and LLVM.
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Higher level languages over Rust?
Or maybe see languages implemented in Rust being writen in rust doesn't mean they're good at interacting wirh rust)
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Announcing Parcel CSS: A new CSS parser, compiler, and minifier written in Rust!
Parcel has been added to my list of languages implemented in Rust! It's currently the only CSS implementation listed there.
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Scripting Languages of the Future
For anyone interested in languages written in Rust, here’s a list: https://github.com/alilleybrinker/langs-in-rust
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Can i use rust to write my compiler??
Absolutely. For a non-exhaustive list of other languages written in Rust, there is https://github.com/alilleybrinker/langs-in-rust. If you are looking for libraries to help you along the way, check out https://github.com/Kixiron/rust-langdev.
inkwell
Posts with mentions or reviews of inkwell.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-04.
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Compiler Optimization Learning Suggestions
Secondly, I have learned about LLVM, and I have learned about the Inkwell library on Rust (It's a New Kind of Wrapper for Exposing LLVM (Safely)). Has anyone used this library before? Is this a good practice? Is it suitable for my compiler? Can I write some optimization passes of my own using this library?
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How Rust transforms into Machine Code.
inkwell is a great llvm binding for rust and it has an implementation of kaleidoscope
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Need help improving API for crate relying on Inkwell (Self-referential struct alternative)
I'm working on a compiler that uses the LLVM wrapper Inkwell for compilation. In order to compile something in inkwell, unless I'm missing something (which I very well might be), you need two structs:
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Tools for creating a programming language in rust
Compiler backends (If building JIT/machine compiled langauges) 1. cranelift 2. inkwell - safe rust wrapper around llvm
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How good is LLVM in other languages other than C++? (In my case I'm interested in using Rust)
I'm currently using the Inkwell bindings for Rust, which I've found actually pretty nice. In terms of generating LLVM IR, the C bindings (which is what Inkwell uses internally) can do anything you want them to (definitely not limited to trivial languages as someone else here said.) I'm even using the LLVM garbage collection infrastructure, with no problems (well, no problems in generating it; the LLVM GC infrastructure works pretty well but is sparsely documented, so actually writing a GC is fairly difficult, but it's doable). The C bindings are actually more stable than the C++ bindings (!), although not quite as stable as the textual IR format; but without the bindings you would have to write code to generate the IR yourself, the compiler would be slower as it must be emitted as text and then reparsed in a different process, and you would have less control over optimization.
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Are there any repos of tutorials on writing a compiler in Rust?
safe llvm bindings https://github.com/TheDan64/inkwell
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LLVM Infrastructure and Rust
As we reviewed in this article LLVM IR has many use-cases and allows us to analyze and optimize source code through its passes. Knowing IR language itself will help us to write our passes and build projects around it for debugging, testing, optimizing. Currently, LLVM IR doesn't have Rust API. It's mainly used through the C++ library. However, some user-created repos are available on crates.io. There is a Rust binding to LLVM's C API - llvm-sys and two other, more Rusty APIs that are using LLVM: inkwell and llvm-ir. And finally, if you want to learn how to write a LLVM pass you should start here.
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What sort of mature, open-source libraries do you feel Rust should have but currently lacks?
The high level crate is called inkwell.
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What's the best way to generate LLVM code in Rust?
https://github.com/TheDan64/inkwell is about as high-level as it gets (from what I've seen). It's based on top of llvm-sys, which is thankfully kept up-to-date with the LLVM releases.
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VERY Slow compile times (15s+) with llvm-sys as a dependency
On a side note, there are good high level bindings to llvm-sys, inkwell
What are some alternatives?
When comparing langs-in-rust and inkwell you can also consider the following projects:
llvm-sys.rs
rust-langdev - Language development libraries for Rust
llvm-ir - LLVM IR in natural Rust data structures
starlark-rust - A Rust implementation of the Starlark language
not-yet-awesome-rust - A curated list of Rust code and resources that do NOT exist yet, but would be beneficial to the Rust community.
mold - Mold: A Modern Linker 🦠
plzoo - Programming Languages Zoo
Carp - A statically typed lisp, without a GC, for real-time applications.
passerine - A small extensible programming language designed for concise expression with little code.
xonsh - :shell: Python-powered, cross-platform, Unix-gazing shell.
cs-video-courses - List of Computer Science courses with video lectures.