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              1. status: - creating LLVM bitcode from clojure - writing bitcode/asm to disk - executing compiled functions in memory
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              I’ve been poking at this for about a year now and it all came together last night/this morning!
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            im calling it symba, short for SYMbolic Assembler
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          basically: a functional representation of LLVM bit code you can manipulate in Clojure and emit/run as needed
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        this is the approach behind github.com/nasser/mage and github.com/nasser/magic and its been super effective
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      benefits: - the compiler you end up building is functional and much easier to reason about - you can build it all live in the REPL
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    symba is trying to do this for LLVM code so that building compilers that target native assembly isn’t such a pain
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      open questions: - will the tree shape of LLVM bitcode be as composable as the MSIL stack? - will phi nodes suck?
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        the question, as always: where is ASCII assumed? not in binary formats, typically. it gets introduced by parsers.
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          should have a repo soon, but reproducing this could be a pain. llvm, mono and clojure need to be lined up just right…
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        hoping for terralang.org/ but clojure instead of lua and direct access to bitcode instead of lua-like syntax
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