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So the main question is... why? The closest you get to this sort of thing in practice is something like a parser generator, or an automatic interface generator
by jcranmer 4y ago
So the main question is... why?
The closest you get to this sort of thing in practice is something like a parser generator, or an automatic interface generator. ANTLR and Tree-sitter both allow generating parsers in a variety of languages, but their input is basically a description of an AST in a highly specialized and extremely declarative context.
Once you start having actual logic in your code generation, there is very little benefit to codegening to a high-level language instead of going directly to a compiler IR, a bytecode, or assembly directly. The places where you see that happening--JavaScript being the biggest one--is largely limited to where there is no other alternative.