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inkwell reviews and mentions

• Compiler Optimization Learning Suggestions
  2 projects | /r/Compilers | 4 Aug 2023

  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?

• Finding LLVM location for use with the inkwell Rust crate
  1 project | /r/Nix | 17 Jul 2023

  I am trying to use the inkwell Rust crate for working with LLVM. In Cargo.toml, I have specified the LLVM version using features = ["llvm15-0"]

• How Rust transforms into Machine Code.
  5 projects | /r/rust | 3 Jun 2023

  inkwell is a great llvm binding for rust and it has an implementation of kaleidoscope

• Inkwell – New Kind of Wrapper for Exposing LLVM in Rust
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 4 May 2023
• Need help improving API for crate relying on Inkwell (Self-referential struct alternative)
  2 projects | /r/rust | 24 Jan 2023

  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:

• Tools for creating a programming language in rust
  8 projects | /r/rust | 15 Nov 2022

  Compiler backends (If building JIT/machine compiled langauges) 1. cranelift 2. inkwell - safe rust wrapper around llvm

• How do I instrument LLVM IR for a Rust program?
  1 project | /r/rust | 29 Jul 2022

  Haha small world. I think we go to the same university and I took the same or similar course a few years ago. If somebody hasn't done the work for you, you may have to do some instrumentation yourself depending on what you want to track IMO https://github.com/TheDan64/inkwell is the best LLVM wrapper for Rustland (Python's llvmlite is a bit easier to use though)

• How good is LLVM in other languages other than C++? (In my case I'm interested in using Rust)
  6 projects | /r/ProgrammingLanguages | 3 Jun 2022

  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.

• Are there any repos of tutorials on writing a compiler in Rust?
  2 projects | /r/rust | 15 May 2022

  safe llvm bindings https://github.com/TheDan64/inkwell

• LLVM Infrastructure and Rust
  3 projects | dev.to | 23 Dec 2021

  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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