spykyvenator

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does this compiler exist?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Seems like the better place to post this idd

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does this compiler exist?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, indeed, I had a hard time explaining this but its what I mean.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does this compiler exist?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you nailed this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does this compiler exist?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think that, but it could be. Variables, functions and things like loops, switches and if statements are things that most programming languages have in common. They can be specified without forcing a specific syntax and already take you far from turing machines.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does this compiler exist?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree, I put an example in my main post, it isn’t really a language in that it has as little as possible language specifications. It could be simple or complex syntax based on what plugins you select for your use case. Its not a universal programming language more like a universal programming language specification that most if not all languages fit into.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does this compiler exist?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  LLVM really looks like something that I need to look into

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does this compiler exist?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It is somewhat like running multiple linters and prettifiers but these are hefty tools, the build tool should provide an interface that lets you attach different programs for every little step from code to machine lang

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does this compiler exist?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  LLVM Is something I want to check out for some time now but never did. yacc I haven’t heard about. but its indeed what I’m getting at, why haven’t we got a single language that you can adapt to all needs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does this compiler exist?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, they are there to combine several programs into the building process, and could be used for this. What I would want is programs like typescript that preprocess your code with possible changes in syntax and language specification

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does this compiler exist?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, not sure what you mean by this but its indeed what I’m getting at, our compilers aren’t built enough in unix fashion to my liking. gcc handles preprocessing, compilation and linking. but I wouldn’t know how to run a second preprocessor after the first one in gcc

• Does this compiler exist?
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