Good languages for writing compilers in?

• TablaM

  151 183 0.0 Rust

  The practical relational programing language for data-oriented applications

  

It sounds puzzling, I start learning Rust with https://tablam.org and probably was making my life harder trying to do "advanced" stuff when not have any idea of what I was doing.

• Pegged

  7 534 5.5 D

  A Parsing Expression Grammar (PEG) module, using the D programming language.

Also pegged is a pretty nice library for generating parsers from PEG grammars.

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• Odin

  84 5,641 9.9 Odin

  Odin Programming Language

  

You can try using Odin language: https://github.com/odin-lang/Odin

• AECforWebAssembly

  51 31 8.2 C++

  A port of ArithmeticExpressionCompiler from x86 to WebAssembly, so that the programs written in the language can run in a browser. The compiler has been rewritten from JavaScript into C++.

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:

• rust

  2,682 92,831 10.0 Rust

  Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

  

Also I think rustc itself tends to use arenas to solve this problem, which also gets around the lifetime issues

• mpl

  7 285 8.4 Standard ML

  The MaPLe compiler for efficient and scalable parallel functional programming

  

Maple is a fork of MLton: https://github.com/MPLLang/mpl

• Carp

  84 5,393 0.7 Haskell

  A statically typed lisp, without a GC, for real-time applications.

  

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• ppci

  5 322 0.0 Python

  A compiler for ARM, X86, MSP430, xtensa and more implemented in pure Python

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