rust-langdev
Language development libraries for Rust (by Kixiron)
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It's a New Kind of Wrapper for Exposing LLVM (Safely) (by TheDan64)
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rust-langdev
Posts with mentions or reviews of rust-langdev.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-23.
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Is this a good way to free up some memory?
If you're doing lang dev, maybe check out https://github.com/Kixiron/rust-langdev. I haven't done much since college, not in rust, but I've heard good things
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loxcraft: a compiler, language server, and online playground for the Lox programming language
rust-langdev has a lot of libraries for building compilers in Rust. Perhaps you could use these to make your implementation easier, and revisit it later if you want to build things from scratch. I'd suggest logos for lexing, LALRPOP / chumsky for parsing, and rust-gc for garbage collection.
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Should I revisit my choice to use nom?
https://github.com/Kixiron/rust-langdev is a pretty nice list of libraries for Rust lang dev including parsers.
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Tools for creating a programming language in rust
Someone showed me this repo with a bunch of lang dev libraries a while ago. I haven't done anything with it personally, but it may be of interest to you https://github.com/Kixiron/rust-langdev
- Rust libraries to build a compiler for my language?
- Good textbook with implementations of OO type system?
- How to write a compiler or interpreter in rust
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Make A Langage
https://github.com/Kixiron/rust-langdev for additional resources and libraries
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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.
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Does anyone know if scala parser combinators library works for scala 3?
not sure if i’m really convinced of this, rustc being written in rust means there are a lot of great language dev abstractions that have made their way to the ecosystem. particularly for a language frontend, i would argue rust provides a fantastic experience: there are dedicated lexer generators, parsers of all sorts, including some with great error messages out of the box, several variations on rustc-style diagnostic reporting, among others. in fact, as far as frontend implementation, i would argue rust is significantly easier to get off of the ground with than haskell, which has a steep learning curve for some of the really powerful libraries most useful for working with large AST datatypes, and some frankly crusty tools as the “best in class” for lexer and parser generation. granted, parser combinators in haskell are a bit more convenient than in rust, but i think the language dev story as a whole for rust is really solid.
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 rust-langdev and inkwell you can also consider the following projects:
llvm-sys.rs
llvm-ir - LLVM IR in natural Rust data structures
langs-in-rust - A list of programming languages implemented in Rust, for inspiration.
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.
codespan - Beautiful diagnostic reporting for text-based programming languages.
scala3-example-project - An example sbt project that compiles using Dotty
mold - Mold: A Modern Linker 🦠
pratt - Pratt parser written in Rust
Carp - A statically typed lisp, without a GC, for real-time applications.
plzoo - Programming Languages Zoo