yeah, i started working on something to try and address the fact that all of the tools in this space are steaming hot garbage... after struggling to build a new

yeah, i started working on something to try and address the fact that all of the tools in this space are steaming hot garbage... after struggling to build a new language myself with various and finding it was possible, but the resulting toolchain was terrible and bug-prone. its a shame given how fantastic llvm is for the backend problem that all of the lexer/parser tools are terrible. its very easy to produce much better interfaces and errors than ... well... everything i have been able to find including antlr, flex, bison, haskell parser combinator libraries... an afternoon of lazy work without especially strenuous thought is more than enough. but performance is hard, especially given the appalling quality of the academic literature and example code for the various algorithms. but for proving the point it is not especially important... its not a great example... its garbage code, but here it is, able to generate itself and all the usual hoo hah... complete with a scheme shat out with it in 2 hours instead of the usual mundane 24... https://bitbucket.org/craniumsoftware/cp2/src/c6eb20ce4c05fce595337a646ff3a0e1a99167e2/?at=semi%2Fwork https://bitbucket.org/craniumsoftware/cp2/src/c6eb20ce4c05fc... the parser is awful. i wrote my own totally generic algorithm (can't remember if i solved the left recursion, but its totally do-able) based on conjuring obvious solutions without thinking very much... i keep thinking it would be nice to take it further, or even to impart the wisdom to those continuing to develop the garbage. if only i had the resources and time... (generates shitty vs integrations too) .. no reason this couldn't be extended to remove the c++ and add functionality to describe language features and generate llvm from that. (oh and naturally the lexer and parser come from the same data, because why make two things where one does a considerably better job and removes a huge source of bugs)