notepad2 VS Cwerg

There have been a series of forks, for example: https://github.com/zufuliu/notepad2

They seem to add a lot of features, though ... I'd be interested to find a more minimal one, which mostly just updates language syntaxes and OS support, and the thankless minor bug squashing ...

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

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

Current work is focused on finding the right feature set. After spending way too much time on thinking about a concrete syntax I decided to instead work on the AST and use S-Expr to serialize it. I plan on sticking with the S-Expr as the "file format" and offer tooling to go back and forth to the yet to be defined concrete syntax.

Shameless plug: Cwerg can be used as a JIT for x86-64, Aarch64 and Arm32.

You can find the code at Cwerg

Shameless plug: Cwerg is aiming for that niche