On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 08:50:48AM +0100, Tony Zorman wrote:
Indeed, this one is interesting because it's *not* a haskell-like language.
I would be interested in more of these kinds of e get the idea that haskell is only good for implementing compilers for haskell-like languages :)
It is perhaps worth keeping in mind that there are strong incentives for mainstream compilers for mainstream languages to be self-hosting. Thus C compilers (mostly) in C, Haskell compilers (mostly) in Haskell, JDK morstly in Java, etc., and e.g. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34729930/what-language-was-used-to-write... (originally it seems O'Caml, now Rust) This is especially true when the language both provides and uses a core library built along with the compiler. Thus compilers that are written in some other language are more likely be for a niche DSL. -- Viktor.