[cfe-dev] Implementing a new language

[Argyrios Kyrtzidis]

As Sebastian says, C# is so different that reusing clang doesn't make much sense.
It may be of interest to you this project: http://code.google.com/p/gel2/
"Google Experimental Language #2 (GEL2) is an experimental general-purpose object-oriented programming language. GEL2 is essentially a subset of C#, extended with an ownership-based type system which allows GEL2 to free memory safely and deterministically without using a garbage collector."

-Argiris

On Sep 27, 2010, at 10:53 AM, Sebastian Redl wrote:

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> On Sep 27, 2010, at 3:03 AM, Mark Chandler wrote:
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>> I was looking into adding support to compile c# (in a limited subset with manual memory handling) into clang but i have no idea where to start. I would like to be able to make it interact with c++/c code thus using clang.
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> Do you really think this is a good idea? C# is a very different language from C and C++, despite superficial similarities. Also, the language is not really designed to cope with manual memory management, and would be quite complicated to use in such a context. (Not that this has much to do with the compiler itself anyway.)
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> I also don't quite understand your goal. What do you mean by interact? Do you also want to interact with real C#? Do you want to interact on the source level or the binary level?
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> Sebastian
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