[LLVMdev] Google Summer of Code Project Idea

[Eli Gottlieb]

Dear LLVM-Dev,
    Your ideas page said that you'd take applications to write new 
language frontends for LLVM.  I've been in-progress for most of a year 
now writing a compiler for my language Deca as a side-project, and I'd 
like to make it  GSOC project by targeting it at LLVM.
    My other commitments are that I've applied to several different REU 
programs.  If one of them accepts me, I will take it, but otherwise I 
will be free to work full-time on this language frontend.
    I've attached the tarball containing my progress so far.  I have a 
lexer+parser generated in Java by SableCC, will be writing the main 
compiler in Scala, have done some work on the type system and type 
inference, and have made SWIG bindings to link the JVM to LLVM.  What 
does everyone/the-applicable-people think?  Currently my language spec 
consists of notes in a notebook documented my design, should I write it 
up as a concrete specification for you to evaluate?

Thanks for your time,
Eli Gottlieb
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