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Note: It seems the author hasn't had time working on this project for the last couple of months. Still, I think it might be interesting for others to know about

Note: It seems the author hasn't had time working on this project for the last couple of months. Still, I think it might be interesting for others to know about this project, maybe someone wants to play around with this.

doogle88 13y ago
Do you know how complete this is at the moment?
- terhechte 13y ago
  I haven't tried it myself yet, but I really wish that somebody would continue working on this as I think it is an awesome project. My CS knowledge is not deep enough to work on this myself, I fear. The author wrote this about the project in February (on the mailing list): "So, it's not dead but there's (currently) noone working on it besides me and my time for it is very limited (to barely more than zero over the last year). I'm hopeful that I'll be able to find more time, hopefully around summer. That said, if anyone is interested in working on it, I'm more than happy to have the help. I do promise to make some time to work with potential contributors, but as you can see my latency can be pretty bad at times. " And last year in June he wrote this: "Also, most any normal scala program will not work since many parts of the standard library are not compatible yet with LLVM (because of java library dependencies)." Which probably still stands as there's no way to easily convert the java library to Scala and then to llvm.
  - yareally 13y ago
    There is a way to convert Java straight to LLVM. I would guess the developer is already aware of that though https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/java/trunk/docs/java-frontend.txt https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/java/trunk/docs/java-front...
    - gsnedders 13y ago
      The LLVM FAQ states, however: > There is an incomplete version of a Java front end available in the java module. There is no documentation on this yet so you'll need to download the code, compile it, and try it.
- octo_t 13y ago
  Theres a talk from ScalaDays last year (I think) where the answer is basically "its not"
ericssmith 13y ago
Indeed. I just found this yesterday, and it is an interesting project. Not sure I'll be able to contribute in the next few months, but I certainly will "play around" with it.

doogle88 13y ago

Do you know how complete this is at the moment?

terhechte 13y ago
I haven't tried it myself yet, but I really wish that somebody would continue working on this as I think it is an awesome project. My CS knowledge is not deep enough to work on this myself, I fear. The author wrote this about the project in February (on the mailing list): "So, it's not dead but there's (currently) noone working on it besides me and my time for it is very limited (to barely more than zero over the last year). I'm hopeful that I'll be able to find more time, hopefully around summer. That said, if anyone is interested in working on it, I'm more than happy to have the help. I do promise to make some time to work with potential contributors, but as you can see my latency can be pretty bad at times. " And last year in June he wrote this: "Also, most any normal scala program will not work since many parts of the standard library are not compatible yet with LLVM (because of java library dependencies)." Which probably still stands as there's no way to easily convert the java library to Scala and then to llvm.
- yareally 13y ago
  There is a way to convert Java straight to LLVM. I would guess the developer is already aware of that though https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/java/trunk/docs/java-frontend.txt https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/java/trunk/docs/java-front...
  - gsnedders 13y ago
    The LLVM FAQ states, however: > There is an incomplete version of a Java front end available in the java module. There is no documentation on this yet so you'll need to download the code, compile it, and try it.
octo_t 13y ago
Theres a talk from ScalaDays last year (I think) where the answer is basically "its not"

ericssmith 13y ago

Indeed. I just found this yesterday, and it is an interesting project. Not sure I'll be able to contribute in the next few months, but I certainly will "play around" with it.