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It looks all nice and well, but why can't languages these days be compiled ? I reckon it's way harder to do, but there's no major impediment to achieve what can
by norswap 15y ago
It looks all nice and well, but why can't languages these days be compiled ? I reckon it's way harder to do, but there's no major impediment to achieve what can be achieved in a language based say on the CLR.
- tomjen3 15y agoWhy waste time writing a compiler when you can leverage much of the work already done to optimize .NET? If the clients don't have it, make your installer download it and be done with it.
- regularfry 15y agoIt's much harder to get enough of a .NET runtime together for a new platform than it is to lean on a platform compiler and binary toolchain which must already exist. It's all very well saying "just download the installer," but that won't get my nemerle code running on my phone.
- icey 15y agoWhat phone? Chances are Mono run there...
- regularfry 15y agoNokia N900. Ok, so there's Mono for Maemo, so that's not a particularly convincing argument in itself. However, the point stands - replace Nemerle with Scala, for instance, and I'm stuffed (mostly).
- VladD2 15y agoCompiled in native? CLR compile IL before execution. In the next version of Nemerle we plan to create Interchangeable back-ends: http://code.google.com/p/nemerle-2/wiki/BackEnds?wl=en-US http://code.google.com/p/nemerle-2/wiki/BackEnds?wl=en-US As one of the variants we consider to create backend for LLVM. At least we think about it.