| ▲ | dana321 4 days ago | |
If you were building a programming language, would you write it in Java or Rust? | ||
| ▲ | foldr 4 days ago | parent | next [-] | |
I'm not personally a fan of Java, but if I was implementing a compiler, I'd pick a language with GC. There's pretty much no downside to a GC in that context, and it gives you more flexibility when working with graph data structures. If 'building a programming language' means writing an interpreter or VM, then I can see the attraction of Rust for that case. But writing interpreters and VMs is like 0.0001% of the programming that gets done in the world. | ||
| ▲ | pjmlp 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
In those two alone, Java. There is no reason I would care about borrow checking implementing a compiler, and besides all the tooling, Java also has stuff like ANTRLR and MPS, and naturally Graal is a good playground for compiler backend tooling. However in general, I would rather look into OCaml, Haskell, F#, Scala. | ||
| ▲ | childintime 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Graal and Truffle make the JVM look attractive, especially for this case! | ||