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Llgo on Go 1.1

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55 pointsstevedomin12 comments

    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

Thank you.

Always briefly describe the thing you're writing about.

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.

Or at least link to a description.

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

There is an earlier post about that.

http://blog.awilkins.id.au/2012/12/go-in-browser-llgo-does-p...

I can't wait for my favorite web browser to be implemented in my favorite web browser to run on my favorite operating system...

Yeah.. well, native developers want to target the latest platforms, too. :(

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

There's a wiki page on the GitHub repo: 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

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!

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

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.

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