Nod. VAST[1] for LLVM MLIR was mentioned in recent discussion[2]. Hmm, so perhaps with a "degree of absorption" axis, from say idiomatic-reimplementation to mig

Nod. VAST[1] for LLVM MLIR was mentioned in recent discussion[2]. Hmm, so perhaps with a "degree of absorption" axis, from say idiomatic-reimplementation to might-as-well-be-a-shell-call, with also transliterated-port and c-library-api, perhaps one key threshold might be sufficiently-digested-to-permit-refactoring? Puzzlement. With the pain of dealing with LLIR on one end, to an imaginary scraping of LLVM to a non-C++ knowledge representation sufficient for emitting native implementations... I'm unclear on the space's cost/benefit transitions. Or consider large-scale code analysis and refactoring tooling - perhaps having that should be a bootstrap target, a unit of absorption is app repo, and a key threshold is ability to refactor source? Or not repo, but arbitrary scale. So Language Server Protocol blended with dynamic loading and calling convention? Smalltalkish "live" image environment with piles of mutating forked repos? That sort of cross-checks - ask a "programmer apprentice" ai, err, or simply a programming team, "I'd like capabilities foo with characteristics bar", a set of forked repos might be an unremarkable outcome. So that might suggest a language bootstrap target of ffi plus refactoring-LSP client? FFI is an unremarkable bootstrap target, and a refactoring-LSP client gives control over both sides, so maybe next, how to move code across the line? AST scraping and transliteration? Polyglot direct memory access to data types? Suggesting as targets maybe high-end "can exercise and analyze compiler output" ffi, and rich AST tooling? Language implementation, with its specs and test suites, can be a nice context for such work. Which might bring us back around to an emphasis on early implementation of other languages, but with maybe an increased focus on interoperation with existing implementations? Control of config, build, and linkage, might also need emphasis? Hmm, fun, tnx! [1] https://github.com/trailofbits/vast https://github.com/trailofbits/vast [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33387149 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33387149