On 16 February 2012 13:55, Martin Heidegger <m...@leichtgewicht.at> wrote:
> On 16/02/2012 21:49, Jarosław Szczepankiewicz wrote: > >> this is my personal opinion, but what's the purpose of another flex >> compiler from open source, especially written in as3? >> > > The purpose of a compiler written in AS3 is that we can compile code on > the fly instead of whenever necessary. This ability is important if we ever > want tools like Firebug for JavaScript or the Python console, both of which > are now dearly missing. Also Dart - a competing language - offers this > feature directly on the homepage which does put so awe on the faces. > The libraries needed to create an AS3 based compiler are already available, there is as3commons-asblocks that is able to parse AS3 source code to an AST. And there is as3commons-bytecode which is able to generate classes at runtime. The big challenge is the conversion from AST->opcodes when it comes to the method bodies. But in theory its entirely possible... Yet, this is a different matter from Falcon or a possible alternative compiler produced by the community.
