Anyone else doing compiler work in Golang?

• go

  2,068 119,564 10.0 Go

  The Go programming language

  

Well...there's an obvious one, the go compiler is mostly written in go with some assembly sprinkled around.

• cue

  108 4,754 9.7 Go

  The home of the CUE language! Validate and define text-based and dynamic configuration

  

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• hcl

  40 5,060 8.2 Go

  HCL is the HashiCorp configuration language.

  

• goawk

  19 1,885 7.1 Go

  A POSIX-compliant AWK interpreter written in Go, with CSV support

Another nice project that I have used from time to time (and a very good source for insight) is the awk interpreter written in go https://github.com/benhoyt/goawk

• mage

  9 3,879 5.0 Go

  a Make/rake-like dev tool using Go

  

https://github.com/magefile/mage but I haven't tried it as am not a fun of make like tools.

• yava

  1 5 10.0 Go

  mini-Java compiler implemented in go

I did a (mini) Java compiler for my undergrad final project using golang, back then all I need is a static typed, fast compiled language that I am familiar with, so golang is the obvious choice. It was pretty good to write parser with, but the codegen part was a mess.

• wdte

  2 20 10.0 Go

  WDTE is a simple, functional-ish, embedded scripting language.

It's not compiled, but I wrote my own scripting language.

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• windlang

  1 15 0.0 Go

  WindLang, A simple programming language built with golang 🍃

• orbit

  4 43 4.7 Go

  Server side go transpiler and micro frontend toolchain for React & Javascript. (by GuyARoss)

I am working on a React & Javascript transpiler + server-side framework that is written in go. https://github.com/GuyARoss/orbit

• esbuild

  322 37,276 9.5 Go

  An extremely fast bundler for the web

The javascript bundler esbuild is written in Go and is extremely fast for that reason. The author originally tried both Rust and Go and ended up using Go. There is a discussion of why he chose Go here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22336284

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