> I'm interested on this topic and I will try to help as much as I can. Good > The original idea of Brett is very interesting. In my case I would do the > base compiler implemented in C and using yacc (for example) to implement the > grammar. > But it won't make sense in a community like Guix where most people know > Scheme rather than C/C++. > So it may make sense to write a small C compiler for Scheme and then write > the ML bootstrap compiler in Scheme, similar to what Guix does to bootstrap > itself with nyacc. Well we already have a C compiler written in scheme, it is called Gnu Mes (MesCC to be precise)
We also have a scheme bootstrappable from nothing written in C https://github.com/oriansj/mes-m2 https://github.com/oriansj/mescc-tools-seed > This will solve more problems than Guix itself, because it seems this > bootstrapping problem comes historically from the very first implementations > of ML. Let us hope > As we talked yesterday with Brett via chat, PolyML is the only one that has > been packaged in Guix but it is very tricky, because they have on the repo > the binaries to boostrap itself. That needs to be fixed > Writting a Scheme compiler should be easy, if we don't care about > optimization techniques. It doesn't need that requirements. > But if you need any help in the low level area, I can help you guys. Well I need more help in the high level areas -Jeremiah
