libCat VS AECforWebAssembly

That's awesome! I'm working on something that sounds similar. https://github.com/cons-cat/libcat

I'd love to see your work if you're willing to share it here!

It's worse in the standard library than it has to be. When I refactored my traits to minimize template instantiations and lean on concepts as much as possible, I measured over 30% improvement to clean build compile times. It's not possible for the standard to do this, because it would subtly change the API. For instance, you can't instantiate or take the address of a concept, but you can for a type-trait class. No reason you'd want to do that, but you can, so they can't "break" the standard library by optimizing this.

This doesn't have to be true. Over the past year I've made progress towards demonstrating how even non-freestanding C++ can be written without any C or C++ standard library headers or DLLs (with large benefits). There are a few names which the compilers require to be in the std:: namespace, though, but they're very special features like source_location and construct_at with semantics that can't be expressed otherwise.

It isn't that hard to put a predicate into a type. We have lambdas in an unevaluated context, CTAD, and templated type aliases. https://github.com/Cons-Cat/libCat/blob/main/src/libraries/scaredy/cat/scaredy https://github.com/Cons-Cat/libCat/blob/main/src/global_includes.hpp#L70 https://github.com/Cons-Cat/libCat/blob/main/src/libraries/linux/cat/linux#L289 You do it like this.

I use clang-tidy. These are my current linting rules.

I'm working on this! https://github.com/Cons-Cat/LibCat

Well, I have written the first compiler for my programming language, targetting x86, in IE6-compatible JavaScript, and the second compiler, targetting WebAssembly, has been written in C++11. I think that, to choose a language to write a compiler in, you need to look at at least two things:

That could be true. I host my AEC-to-WebAssembly compiler on GitHub, GitLab and SourceForge, and it's only on GitHub that it has 21 stars and 2 forks. On GitLab and SourceForge, it has zero of both.

Well, the main compiler for my programming language is targetting the JavaScript Virtual Machine by outputting WebAssembly. I think it's even better than targetting Java Virtual Machine, because, for one thing, your executables can run in any modern browser if you output WebAssembly. If you target Java Virtual Machine, the users need to actually download your app. Furthermore, there is an official assembler for WebAssembly called WebAssembly Binary Toolkit (WABT), so your compiler can output assembly and not have to deal with binary files. There is nothing equivalent to that for Java Virtual Machine.

Well, my AEC-to-x86 compiler contains 2'000 lines of code (click "View Source"), and the much more feature-rich AEC-to-WebAssembly compiler contains 5'500 lines of code.

Are you really telling me it's easier to write a tokenizer in Rust than in C++? You know, like I've written a tokenizer for my programming language in C++: https://github.com/FlatAssembler/AECforWebAssembly/blob/master/tokenizer.cpp

I had no idea that is a valid syntax! OK, my largest C++ program to this day is only 5'500 lines of code. If I were making larger programs, I'd probably know stuff like that.

My largest program to this day uses CMAKE: https://github.com/FlatAssembler/AECforWebAssembly/blob/master/CMakeLists.txt

For my Bachelor thesis, I have implemented a PicoBlaze assembler and emulator in JavaScript. If I ever get to that point, if I do not drop out before I have to submit my Bachelor thesis (I have two courses left in my undergraduate program: "Communication Skills" and "Basics of Automatic Control", "Basics of Automatic Control" probably being the most difficult course in my undergraduate program). And, for my Master thesis, I have a compiler that compiles my programming language to WebAssembly, but I will probably not get to submitting my Master thesis.