[LLVMdev] LLVM parsers for popular languages? - Python, Rust, Go

[David Jones]

There is also the Pyston project from Dropbox. Presumably that includes a
Python parser.

I'm not affiliated with the project.

On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 2:35 AM, Alec Taylor <alec.taylor6 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks, happy to of confirmed.
>
> With that in mind, will use the AST modules provided by the languages
> (with the exception of libclang for C++).
>
> Antoine: Am aware of Numba, nice job there BTW. So is there a [decoupled]
> LLVM parser which I can use to read Python files and analyse objects
> (including computing their attributes in OO and setattr scenarios)?
>
> On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 10:23 PM, Antoine Pitrou <antoine at python.org>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Alec Taylor <alec.taylor6 <at> gmail.com
>> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__gmail.com&d=AwMFaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=Mfk2qtn1LTDThVkh6-oGglNfMADXfJdty4_bhmuhMHA&m=gFwnrq1A6b4bDGDoXVANrEYyGDZzyOClT35YGuILpnw&s=PFeGy9X8Vy60g44Moeq7LIisLzx1skqCoTyOllso94I&e=>>
>> writes:
>> >
>> > Would be good to have Python, Rust and Go.Are there any LLVM parsers
>> > around for these popular languages?
>>
>> A programming language is much more than a parser and AST.  It has
>> specific semantics, and a runtime (in the case of Python, the runtime is
>> very large as it hosts a lot of functionality).
>>
>> So it wouldn't make much sense to have "just a parser".
>>
>> However, if you are looking for an implementation of a subset of Python
>> using LLVM, you can take a look at Numba: http://numba.pydata.org/
>> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__numba.pydata.org_&d=AwMFaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=Mfk2qtn1LTDThVkh6-oGglNfMADXfJdty4_bhmuhMHA&m=gFwnrq1A6b4bDGDoXVANrEYyGDZzyOClT35YGuILpnw&s=NZGvzCXyd0A8Yrs45NE2hq5RLlpBSo6pdWk2ul6lkO4&e=>
>>
>> (disclaimer: I am part of the Numba team)
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Antoine.
>>
>>
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