rgo

rgo is a work-in-progress (i.e. unfinished) Go compiler, written in Rust.

For now, this is primarily a fun learning project.

I chose Go as the source language because C compilers have been written over and over, and I wanted to do something new. Go's spec is pretty simple, so it seemed like a good choice. The fact that is has a GC also makes implementing a compiler for it more challenging and, therefore, more interesting.

Additionally, Go's reference implementation uses a custom backend for optimization and codegen, while rgo will use LLVM for optimization and machine code generation.

License

Copyright (c) 2016 The rgo Project Developers.

Licensed under either of

• Apache License, Version 2.0
• MIT license

at your option.

Contribution

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.