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Llgo on Go 1.1

55 points by stevedomin 13y ago

brunoqc 13y ago
llgo is a compiler for Go, written in Go, and using the LLVM compiler infrastructure. llgo is a fledgling, and is being developed primarily as an educational exercise. It is not presently useful for real work. Progress will be reported at http://blog.awilkins.id.au. https://github.com/axw/llgo https://github.com/axw/llgo
- pepijndevos 13y ago
  Thank you. Always briefly describe the thing you're writing about.
  - Zarel 13y ago
    Or at least link to a description.
  - axw 13y ago
    Author here. Fair enough. I wrote that post for a much smaller audience (namely, people already following the llgo project), and certainly didn't expect it to be posted to HN. You're right of course, I should always consider people unfamiliar with the project stumbling across my posts.
james4k 13y ago
Personally, my hope is that we'll be able to target the browser through this effort via emscripten (asm.js) and PNaCl.
- jared314 13y ago
  There is an earlier post about that. http://blog.awilkins.id.au/2012/12/go-in-browser-llgo-does-pnacl.html http://blog.awilkins.id.au/2012/12/go-in-browser-llgo-does-p...
- trentmb 13y ago
  I can't wait for my favorite web browser to be implemented in my favorite web browser to run on my favorite operating system...
  - james4k 13y ago
    Yeah.. well, native developers want to target the latest platforms, too. :(
bluehex 13y ago
Would this make embedding a go runtime in a C program possible, maybe even on iOS?
- axw 13y ago
  I haven't even thought about that to be honest, but there's not currently anything that would preclude embedding code generated by llgo in a C program. This might change in the future, with the introduction of goroutine scheduler and segmented stacks. I don't know the first thing about iOS development, so can't comment there.
axaxs 13y ago
I'd like to help test and even help code this thing. Axw, do you maintain any "does not work" or todo list?
- axw 13y ago
  There's a wiki page on the GitHub repo: https://github.com/axw/llgo/wiki/Unimplemented-and-incomplete-features https://github.com/axw/llgo/wiki/Unimplemented-and-incomplet... If you'd like to work on a feature, please let us know on the llgo-dev group: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/llgo-dev https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/llgo-dev Please be aware that this is still fairly rough around the edges, and I'm new to this game (compilers/language implementation, beyond toys). Thanks!

55 points by stevedomin 13y ago

llgo is a compiler for Go, written in Go, and using the LLVM compiler infrastructure. llgo is a fledgling, and is being developed primarily as an educational exercise. It is not presently useful for real work. Progress will be reported at http://blog.awilkins.id.au. https://github.com/axw/llgo https://github.com/axw/llgo

pepijndevos 13y ago
Thank you. Always briefly describe the thing you're writing about.
- Zarel 13y ago
  Or at least link to a description.
- axw 13y ago
  Author here. Fair enough. I wrote that post for a much smaller audience (namely, people already following the llgo project), and certainly didn't expect it to be posted to HN. You're right of course, I should always consider people unfamiliar with the project stumbling across my posts.

james4k 13y ago

Personally, my hope is that we'll be able to target the browser through this effort via emscripten (asm.js) and PNaCl.

jared314 13y ago
There is an earlier post about that. http://blog.awilkins.id.au/2012/12/go-in-browser-llgo-does-pnacl.html http://blog.awilkins.id.au/2012/12/go-in-browser-llgo-does-p...
trentmb 13y ago
I can't wait for my favorite web browser to be implemented in my favorite web browser to run on my favorite operating system...
- james4k 13y ago
  Yeah.. well, native developers want to target the latest platforms, too. :(

bluehex 13y ago

Would this make embedding a go runtime in a C program possible, maybe even on iOS?

axw 13y ago
I haven't even thought about that to be honest, but there's not currently anything that would preclude embedding code generated by llgo in a C program. This might change in the future, with the introduction of goroutine scheduler and segmented stacks. I don't know the first thing about iOS development, so can't comment there.

axaxs 13y ago

I'd like to help test and even help code this thing. Axw, do you maintain any "does not work" or todo list?

axw 13y ago
There's a wiki page on the GitHub repo: https://github.com/axw/llgo/wiki/Unimplemented-and-incomplete-features https://github.com/axw/llgo/wiki/Unimplemented-and-incomplet... If you'd like to work on a feature, please let us know on the llgo-dev group: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/llgo-dev https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/llgo-dev Please be aware that this is still fairly rough around the edges, and I'm new to this game (compilers/language implementation, beyond toys). Thanks!