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Ask HN: Beginner non-trivial transpiler projects to learn from?

by kesava on 8/20/20, 6:12 AM with 6 comments

• by HackedBunny on 8/20/20, 11:30 AM

  These might be too far off the beaten track for you, being non-standard languages with full game library systems, but Mark Sibly's Monkey2 (discontinued for lack of support) is a complex transpiler project written in a very read-friendly language:

  https://github.com/blitz-research/monkey2/tree/develop/src/m...

  ... and one of his previous languages, BlitzMax, is continued by others today as BlitzMaxNG, and it uses a frequently-updated transpiler based off the former/similar Monkey language:

  https://github.com/bmx-ng/bcc

  Again, easy to read, and the principles are the same for almost any language.

  Downloadable distros:

  https://blitzresearch.itch.io/monkey2 https://blitzmax.org/

  Targets include Windows x86/64, Mac, Linux, Android and HTML5... among others!

• by Const-me on 8/20/20, 12:29 PM

  Take a look there: https://github.com/Const-me/vis_avs_dx/tree/master/avs_dx/Dx... Couple test cases: https://github.com/Const-me/vis_avs_dx/blob/master/avs_dx/Co...

  The transpiler is in C++/17. The source language is something called NSEEL, implemented in Winamp couple decades ago. The original runtime was a JIT into old-school x87 code. The target language is Microsoft HLSL, specifically it’s for shader model 5 for Direct3D 11.0.

  I have little to no background with compiler development, but IMO my transpiler ain’t too bad, and it’s very efficient.

• by quickthrower2 on 8/20/20, 12:09 PM

  I knocked something up. It might be a bit too trivial but I’ll let you judge: https://github.com/mcapodici/badlanguage

• by max_ on 8/20/20, 11:58 AM

  You may want to have a look at an "MVP" compiler one of such projects is The Super Tiny Compiler[0]

  [0]https://github.com/jamiebuilds/the-super-tiny-compiler